Peace and Rich's it.

Here's some blessings I'm Michael Be back with. I am the host of Take Back Your Mind. And welcome to the new

Take Back Your Mind life question of the week. Well, I have the privilege of seeking to answer the questions that you ask me.

You know what Take Back Your Mind means. We have a a mind and the mind is often programmed by the world of effects and circumstances and sometimes other people's agendas for our mind.

Taking it back means that we do not allow just anything to come into our mind to program us we take back our own mind

we can actually say we program ourselves we put into our mind what we want we have

a vision of the life we want to live we have an affirmative tone that we live by

and we begin to allow for our mind to be an avenue of awareness of that which is real and true and everlasting.

We're going to take back our mind.

This question is from Natasha.

She's writing me from Switzerland. She says oftentimes when I meditate, the

happiness I feel is so strong, powerful, wonderful, and long-lasting that I seem to have

lost interest in the world around me, including my friends and even my dog that I love so much.

It's as if the outside world just isn't that important to me anymore.

And all that I want is to be in that happiness mode again.

How can I be in the world when this happiness seems to make

me want to forget it? Natasha, what you're describing there is a stage in evolution. Beginning stages,

people are trying to get happiness from the world. The ego loves shiny things. The media paints pictures of if you have this

kind of car, you'll be happy. If you're married, you'll be happy. If you have kids, you'll be happy.

If you have all of these things in the world, a lot of money and fame and fortune and all of this,

then you'll be happy. But as you begin to meditate and you begin to touch the realm within you

that is pure joy itself, intelligence itself, love itself,

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