Aahh… the Bliss Junkies! Lot’s of them out there! So many people searching for bliss, bliss, bliss, bliss, everywhere bliss. It’s like drugs, sex and rock’n roll. You can’t get enough of your addictions to bliss.

Maybe it’s not that way for everyone; whatever your addiction is…chocolate ice cream…

How do you find bliss? What is your Bliss Junkie manifestation? Everyone wants to be in bliss, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No one wants to feel anything else, but as I talked about in another video, different emotions are just passing weather. Even bliss is passing weather. It’s a sunny day, compared to a cloudy day.

And maybe as time goes on and you become very adept at controlling your thoughts, which in turn trigger emotion, when you become very adept at controlling your thoughts to always be in a happy zone (and perhaps maybe even being non-judgmental is a big step in that direction.) Once you can do that, you can have bliss more often. What kills bliss is judgment, negative thoughts, falling asleep and forgetting who you really are… Those are bliss killers, for sure.

But if you’re not in bliss 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, let it be all right. Who cares? It’s not about being in bliss all the time. Wanting to be in bliss all the time is the language of a junkie. Wanting to always be happy, always be peaceful, always be Zen. Hey, you know there’s a little excitement in having various emotions. If you’re always the same all the time, it might not be a very interesting life. The emotional body is part of the human experience; it’s part of the adventure. If it was that easy to control the human emotions and the human thoughts, then everybody would have passed their finals long ago and been out of here!

So don’t be a Bliss Junkie. Be a Reality Junkie. What’s really real? Is this a bad moment? If it’s a bad moment, then let it be a bad moment. You don’t have to be in denial or pretend. (Christine looks up.) We just had a hummingbird visitor. Hummingbirds are a symbol of beauty, joy… maybe the hummingbird begs to differ! But I say, if it’s a bad moment and you are feeling anger, meet it! Meet it fully, don’t be in denial. If you’re feeling sadness, meet it; don’t be in denial.

Okay, you might learn the trick of being able to change your thoughts, and therefore change your emotions, and quick! You’re out of there, out of that negative zone. That’s not what that’s for; otherwise you’re going to be missing particular growth experiences and lessons that you could have. So when you’re feeling a negative emotion, meet it fully. Meet the challenge. Ask, “What is this that is here in this moment now; what is this about?” Feel the texture of it, feel the energy of it. This is just raw material. You can decide whether it’s good or bad, or you could ignore whether it’s good or bad and explore it. Experience it and see what it has to offer you.

Everything that comes up in your reality, everything that comes up for your attention has something to offer you. Bliss… it’s obvious what it has to offer you. “Not Bliss” might not be so obvious what it has to offer you, but in the long run, meeting that challenge and exploring what that is will give you more chances to have bliss!