IF JOY was a HEALING energy, vibration and frequency... Would you allow yourself to unleash it?

Food for thought (and I realize this may be a controversial post) but..

IF JOY was a HEALING energy, vibration and frequency... Would you allow yourself to be it and unleash it? Or, are you obliged in some way to contain, restrain and even sacrifice your joy so as to honor and show respect for the pain, loss and death (yours or anyone else's) or maybe even to serve as a punishment to atone for 'sins'/debts/trespasses?

What else is possible beyond all of that? Can these debts/trespasses be forgiven?

There is much power in acknowledging and honoring what IS and what has been with all the pain associated... while also being willing to allow ourselves to let go and to create something different.

I am by no means suggesting that everybody “should“ feel joy or "should" unleash joy... Only that it is a possibility that many do not allow themselves for whatever reason.

Maybe we don’t ‘wipe away the memories of the past', but rather allow them to contribute to our present and to our future? Let them be the fuel that propels us forward into a different, greater possibility?

What if it's like this: “We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others”…(quote from the AA Promises)

Ultimately, it’s up to us to decide how we use the past...It can be some thing we use to hold ourselves and others in prison, beat ourselves up with and keep ourselves in a perpetual state of pain and suffering... OR as some thing that makes us stronger, propels us forward and motivates us to be and to create something far greater.

What if refusing joy, vibrancy and the abundance of life perpetuates the pain cycles on the planet? Maybe a reality shift is in order? Heal-thy-self, heal-thy-planet, heal-thy-world!

If joy not allowed, for any reason, as one of the many choices, then there has been a loss of freedom. Choice is powerful. Make sure you are free to have all options available, that's all I'm saying.