[music]: Flowing with Joy
Well to the ego, opening is equated with vulnerability.
Opening is equated with loss.
Opening is equated with rejection.
And, and
with all of our attempts at love relationships,
whether it's with parents or siblings or partners or whoever,
there's a strong association in the deceived mind or the sleeping mind
with this sense of
opening
and pain.
Like opening has brought pain.
And those are strongly associated. So the Holy Spirit is now going to use relationships to
reassociate in the mind:
opening with joy or
opening with a feeling of connection and love. Where we're being called upon,
it seems like a risk, where it seems like a huge leap of faith to the ego.
The Ego is like, "I don't buy it." It's not buying it at all.
It's like, "You're just we get more of the same old same old and it's gonna be painful."
You know, like
sometimes people will say, "Well it's okay to be happy" - I've heard that for years people would say to me -
"It's okay to be happy but just don't get too happy."
[audience laughter]
And I say, "Why? Is there something I should know about that?
Sounds pretty good to me."
"Well, don't be too happy because you're in for a fall."
It's more that dualistic view of of opposites like- oh,
happy
happiness is just the opposite of
sadness, and if you get too happy,
you'll be out of balance.
You'll be completely out of balance. And I never did get the balance word either.
Balance between what? You know it's like, but when you're believing a world of opposites
then that's the thing. That was the thing that was referred to last night where
Lisa had her own metaphysical chapel in Pennsylvania.
And then with her own metaphysical chapel, to lead it and her own A Course in Miracles group.
Her A Course in Miracles group warned her one day one morning
"Don't get too joyful."
When you start getting that from your Course group that, that's pretty, you know you're ready to pop the cork on something.
And so she called me on the phone and she was like, "David, I gotta ask ya.
I gotta ask you.
Is it - is it possible that you could be too joyful?"
[laughter]
No, that's - that's impossible. Your joy is your inheritance.
Whoever is telling you that is not talking the truth.
'Cause they told her to tone it down. And she was just getting more and more....
They sent a memo.
In the metaphysical chapel she got the memo: tone your joy down, it's frightening people.
How?
How
can joy frighten people? That's really, and from a Course group too.
How can you get too joyful, you know?
When you get into the state of happiness and joy, it will come through in appropriate ways.
You know as you move seem to move through time and space because that's just the way the Spirit is. The Spirit
doesn't thrust anything on anybody. But as you're going into it, you know you should never
put like a limit on your happiness and joy because it's unbound, completely unbound.
So to get back to the theme you were bringing up it's it's again. That's where it seems to take faith
because we've had so many memories of some of the associations of opening up and pain and hurt.
I mean think about there was even songs. What was that song was it [song artist's name]
"Love hurts
It hurts so good."
[singing]
"Sometimes love don't feel like it should... hurt so good."
And when you're first listening to it you start,
you start to get to a point of metaphysical advancement and development and you're like, "That is sick!"
[audience laughter] That is absolutely sick!
But when you're going through it, and it does hurt, then you know you have those associations.
That's why, you know, it's part of the catharsis.
It's part of the healing, it's part of the release.
So, all we're saying is just trust that in your in your expression session, so you'll be with the same groups
you know every day and
little by little, it's like when you're just coming out of the shell and you try it out.
I'll try it out on day one.
I'll try it out on day two. You start to build more and more confidence with it like, "This is safe."
Psychotherapy, we all know that yet there has to be trust in a psychotherapeutic relationship for there to be healing and that's why it just
it has to be allowed to flower, to grow,
to strengthen, you know, for there to be that confidence
you know, to open up.
And no one will open up if they don't have a sense of trust and safety, so it's just a little bit at a time.
You'll know by the experience, yeah, that's what it always is.