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A couple days ago I read a poll taken recently on depression. Among its other findings, the poll said the time of year many folks are least depressed is right now–the holiday season.

It doesn’t matter whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Epiphany–or don’t celebrate at all. This is the season of joy. And joy, apparently, is contagious, regardless of what you believe or do not believe.

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What brings you joy? What are those experiences–those people, those activities, those thoughts–that bring you joy, filling your present moments with bliss and a deeply-felt sense of oneness?

We would ask you to sit down with the silence and ponder these questions. If it will help you, write down whatever comes to mind–anything and everything. It is important, especially at this point in your evolution, for you to focus on joy.

In your planet’s current state many are panicking and losing sight of the divine light within. But that is simply a choice. It’s a choice no one is ever forced to make. You can choose joy instead, no matter what is happening around you, no matter what is happening with your loved ones.

Chaos may reign in the lives of others. But it will not be the experience of all. Many will choose a different reality.

You’ve heard it said so many times it’s almost a trite expression you pay little attention to–you create your own realities. It does not matter what those around you, even those closest to you, are experiencing. You can still choose the path of joy.

Think about what brings you joy. Then focus on it with all your might. Give all your time, your attention, your energy, your love to what brings you joy. That will keep you aligned with Spirit.

Joy is your birthright, your soul’s purpose for reincarnating this time around. Joy is your essence–you are joy.

In focusing on what brings you joy, you are returning to that divine golden flame within. And there is nothing like joy to make that flame burn brighter and brighter. You can literally transform your life on Planet Earth into paradise. It’s simply a matter of focus. Turn your focus, with a laser-like intent, to joy.

Then you will draw into your life only those experiences that resonate with joy. You will have once again found the eternal golden flame within, the flame that has never gone out. You just forgot it was there.

Your destiny is joy.

Adapted from The Book of Joy by John Cali, Great Western Publishing, 2014

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You’ve probably heard this music before. I never get tired of listening to Beethoven’s Ode To Joy. Here’s a piano version with a bright, happy holiday visual theme.

In the early 1980s John took a spiritual development course, and was introduced to his first spirit guide, Lydia. After Lydia arrived, three other guides also came to him: Archangel Michael, Tamarra, and Chief Joseph. Today these are John’s four main guides.

Besides his four main ones, John has various other guides. The entire group is really a multidimensional collective consciousness. John refers to the entire group simply as “Spirit.”

© Copyright 2014 John Cali. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

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