Happiness, joy, peace-of-mind, love are heavenly feelings, while fear, sadness, pain, tortured-mind, hate, anger and greed represent hellish feelings. Fact is we can eliminate hell for good in our life. How? By keeping a positive attitude at all times. It’s easy to be positive when things are going our way. We can radiate an image of happiness and we can be really a good guy during those times. But it’s during those rough times that staying up-beat is difficult. When things aren’t going our way this is when we are susceptible and prone to be angry, to be sad and at worst to be greedy and to hate. That’s why it’s of utmost importance that we don’t categorize things, people and events as “good” or “bad”. Everything has a purpose and if we can only stop panicking when things are not going the way we wanted to be and focus instead on what we can learn from those trying moments, then heaven can actually be wherever we are and whatever we are doing right now. If we can only keep an open mind, every unpleasant thing, person or event we encounter has in itself a “message” or a “lesson” that we are meant to learn. Example: Winning is heaven while losing in hell but if we could only treat losing just a learning stage in our eventual quest for victory, then there’s really no such thing as hell, right?

The magic word for heaven is actually “peace-of-mind”, because it encompasses everything (happiness, joy and love). I don’t know if you will agree with me but material/physical comfort (and sufferings) is also a state of mind thing. How many of us are facing a giant-screen t.v. at home, while being laden with problems and having a troublesome mind. Are we watching the show? Are we enjoying the soft bed we are lying down if we are tortured by guilt, pain and inability to sleep?

When your stomach is churning in panic, hey I don’t care how comfortable and cool that room is you’ll break into cold sweat, right? Yet imagine a situation when we are at-peace (you do the imagining). Heck, everything is fun and we can appreciate and enjoy every little detail of our blessings.

Just like angels and devils. Try this, tell the people beside you, “There’s an angel (or there’s a devil) beside you” notice that person will immediately stare at something invisible. Never will they imagine that it’s him/her we are pertaining to. Fact is angels and devils are really the 2 sides of our personality. When you just helped someone, when you are in love, happy and at peace, look at the mirror. That’s angel for you. But when you are raging and violently angry, thrashing things around, yelling at the top of your voice. If you could only peep through the mirror ,you are looking at a devil himself.

Of course, we cannot deny that there are spiritual angels and devils hovering around us. But it all starts and ends with us. If we surround ourselves with positive thoughts and intentions, then we need not die to go to heaven. Heaven is right here, right now. By doing so, we are also attracting and drawing all the spiritual angels to us. But if we have nothing in mind but manipulation, greed, anger, hate and other negativities, then it’s like a magnet drawing all the negative vibes to us, thus we are devils residing in a hell.