Joy and Inner Restlessness

[anagogy]

Is Joy a choice? If so, how can I switch to that?
Is bliss something we can achieve through effort? Or through stop trying so hard?

What about inner restlessness? Is there something unbalanced inside that causes us to feel this most of the time? Or is it common for a wanderer to feel this way because of how the world is?

Is brothers and sisters of sorrow referring to us wanderers who feel sorrow for others?

You experience joy when you focus on what you want, or the presence of what you want.

You experience negative emotion when you focus on the absence or lack of what you want. When you want something, and believe you can't have it, you set up contradiction within you. You register this contradictory energy as negative emotion. Blocked energy is what feels bad. When you are not contradicting your desires with negating thoughts and beliefs you feel positive emotions.

Whatever you give your attention to is amassing momentum by virtue of the law of attraction. That means it is easier to keep thinking thoughts you are used to thinking. More thoughts and experiences like those are being pulled into your experience. If a train is headed 100 miles an hour in one direction, the momentum prevents it from instantly changing to the opposite direction. You have to slow down the momentum, and then begin to get momentum headed in the direction that you want.

You may even think you are focusing on the presence of what you want. But your emotions don't lie. How do you feel? If you feel bad, you are focused on the absence of what you want, despite your best intentions. Don't beat yourself up for it, just gently redirect your thoughts to more appealing possibilities. You won't believe them at first, but all your powerful beliefs were once gentle thoughts. You don't have to figure it all out at once. Just use the inner spiritual compass you were born with (your emotions). You are being led all the time, you just have to feel your way there.

The momentum is directed intelligent infinity. The momentum could be described as the energy of the "wyrd" or, the energy of fate, or destiny. When you can direct this momentum in the way you want to, you have the potential to alter your fate or destiny. Fate is just the momentum of thought. Karma is just the momentum of thought. Everything is the momentum of consciousness.

You could also apply this analogy to polarity.