It's an argument I often get presented with in conversations with people, and although I can be convincing in arguing with them, I have secret doubts myself about being able to always be happy.

I tend to rebel against the idea of the perfect balance, that what you reap you will always sow, that what you give is always what you're going to get (that karma thing) in particular if viewed in such a way that whatever I do, I will have to suffer the consequences: because if I understand The Law Of Attraction correctly, if I change who I am, I will not attract what I put in before the change (in a way, I can avoid the consequences or fruits of my own labor). In The Vortex Guided Meditation CDs it mentions the earth's perfect balance and it's often making me snap out of my meditation to ponder the idea...

Can we always be happy? The main argument against it as I see it is that we need to experience a dip in the way we feel to re-experience happiness; that's what people tell me and it makes sense. Without the sad times, we cannot know the happy times. But I reason that I already know what sadness is, I know what I don't want, the contrast has done its job, and perhaps I don't need to re-experience sadness to experience happiness. Can't I just strive to always seek happier thoughts and avoid negative thoughts at the earliest sight (in a way that sadness can't get you)?

If I am happy for 2 hours, it doesn't mean I will be sad for 2 hours, or at least not in the exact opposing capacity, right? And also, if there was a perfect balance, would we ever grow? I think that if we are evolving beings, ones that grow, then the movement is upward; and the contrast really should be from the present moment level to new unknown levels when we expand. This makes sense to me, but I wonder if we as humans have some sort of upper/physical limits to how much we can grow, so that we need to dip into the older sadder spectrum of emotions to then again go up to experience happiness? Maybe we can outlive/beat the balance, at least in this life, by pushing and pushing towards only the happiest emotions? Is there a ceiling? Perhaps I am reaping past karma already which doesn't help the confusion. The only thing that 'feels good' to think is the idea that I can try my best, I can strive to be as happy as I can be and let this balance, if it exists, do what it may...but I shall do my best to be happy regardless. But the unknown of the particulars of how this balance works will eat at me until I figure it out, or make up my mind to just bury this idea as 'nonsense' and do my best to be happy (after all, I don't think there's anything else that I can do, right? I mean, emotions/thoughts/vibration is all there is to play with as far as I figured out; as for the rest, whatever will be will be?).

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Is this balance better described by @Stingray in his answer at You are stupid when not in the Vortex

And I quote a paragraph from it:

"In other words, we allow the daily desires that bubble up in our lives to expand our Inner Being, which then breaks the Vortex alignment with our physical self. And then, through that established habit of reaching for realignment, we then feel the thrill of realigning in a new expanded state."

Basically the balance then can be described as: new never-ending desires causing expansion of your IB which causes you to dip physically; but the dips are not wild, but as I described them in my 2 hour happy/sad analogy: the sadness isn't going to necessarily be exact opposite of happiness in terms of feeling, and the analogy is consistent with the fact that you're not entirely out of alignment with your IB, but only by as much as you've allowed yourself to dip give or take any differences caused by new desires give or take any positive alignment in the meantime. But the idea remains that you will continually grow rather than swing up and down by the exact amounts of happiness and sadness.

Within this all-that-is there is good and bad, happy and sad, but it does it really imply a perfect balance in terms of what we must experience on a continual/cyclical basis? I am not convinced and in my thinking I often just choose to turn a blind eye to any arguments for perfect balance and ignore any reasons against being happy all the time. We can only aim to be happy; the rest should sort itself out.