Is feeling good a good enough reason to work on oneself? Yes! This is an important part of your spiritual pursuit and your spiritual health.
Does following a spiritual path have to be about serving a greater good? Yes, and that greater good begins with serving your highest good. Pursuing your spiritual path is necessarily walking a path of self-transformation. You are committing to mastering the energies that are You. Remember that you are spirit. You are only temporarily inhabiting a physical body. So, mastery of the Self means allowing the Higher Self to direct your human life for your highest good and for the greater good of all. Can you learn how to do that? Yes, you can, beginning with the idea that feeling good is your divine right.
So, back to the importance of Feel Good feelings. You are supposed to enjoy yourself while hanging out on the planet, earth. You are supposed to feel good in the body. Probably, no one told you that. What makes you feel amazing? When are you at your best? When do you feel full and satisfied? What are your passions or what wakes you up and fills you with strong motivation? Follow that momentum. Allow yourself to feel thoroughly good inside. Acknowledge those high feelings as your normal.
Everyday, practice acknowledging aloud all the wonderful things for which you can be grateful. I am so grateful for my good health. I am grateful for my life. I am grateful for the beautiful light pouring through my windows. I am grateful for the birds singing outside my windows, reminding me to be grateful!
Become the human Light Generator, the Joy Bug, the Singer of Positive Energy. As you step into your day set an intention of having good experiences that lift your energy even further. “Expect good things,” as someone’s mother used to say. What I am describing here is one part of practicing your spirituality. [Religion and religiosity are a different subject.]
Throughout your day notice where your mood and vibration are. What kind of energy are you putting out? Notice how easily you are smiling. Or, is frowning your default expression? It is possible to release resentments, anger, and grievances. You do not have to hold onto them and make yourself miserable. You can decide that your excellent emotional health and your spiritual truth (who you really are) are your reality, not your ill feelings about what someone else did or didn’t do to you. If something happens to disturb you, can you take a breath and shift back to raising your vibration? You do not have to hold on to anything that does not make you happy. That is a divine truth. Assume that there is beauty in our human interactions as you go through your day. Observe the beauty all around you if only you would notice.
The full expression of You, the divine being, feels amazing. Go ahead and be that throughout your day.
As you lift yourself to a higher vibration and way of life you are necessarily contributing to the good of the greater whole. We are not connected because some dogma, religious or not, says we are but rather it is a most basic truth that everything is connected to everything. You feel better. You feel whole inside. You feel loved and your capacity to love has risen. Therefore, you have lifted the human consciousness to a higher vibration along with you. Yay, us.
Accept in your mind and in your whole being that separateness is a lie. Connection is real. Connectedness is divine because it is the truth. Everything is connected to everything.
“Shouldn’t I feel guilty about making myself feel better? How can I rightfully pursue enjoying every breath and every moment of my life if others are suffering in the world or, maybe, in my own family?” If you are focused on lower energies, such as war and aggression or animosity or anger then you have contributed nothing toward ending the very terrible hostilities that you abhor. Instead, you have helped to fuel them by adding on your own lower energies such as regret, resentment, anger, hurt, a lack of compassion inner disturbance instead of peace. The only thing that replaces hostility, revenge, hatred, and more is peace. So, do that. Practice generating peace. Yes, really. In every way that you can and as often as you can bring yourself into peace. Feels good, doesn’t it. Send peace out into the world.
Every day that you take the time to be still and look for and find peace inside yourself you’ve done a great and effective thing toward ending the world’s terrible energies. Be still. Find peace. YOU generate peace and then extend that genuine love energy outward into the world. You will have added more peace, more love, more light into the human consciousness, which is behind all our human belief systems, our motivations, and, finally, our actions. Feel good; project that. Find peace within yourself; project that into the world.
Never doubt that you are very important as a unique personality (the human aspect) AND very important as part of the whole. Who is this “Whole”? You and, well, . . . Everything!
Bonus: a channeled message from the angels, December, 2024:
You may already know that this is a very unique time in the earth’s history and in human progress. Transformation is happening because the earth is evolving to a higher consciousness. It will exist at a higher frequency or dimension. This is a wondrous series of events. Humans and all life on the planet must join the earth in its spiritual journey. Wake up. Realize how good it feels to put down your every struggle. Stretch yourself and feel your place in it all. Feel God/Spirit/Source Energy.
You are now urged to re-examine your life from every aspect. Ask yourself what feels good to you and that you enjoy. What activity or life situation or meditation makes you feel more like You? Claiming your God-self is like that but even better. You can feel terrific all the time; you are supposed to. It is your right.