“I choose the joy of God instead of pain.”
The quality of what you value and dwell upon becomes the quality of your experience. It is a matter of what you choose to focus on.
When you focus on the qualities of Creation that you have within you – Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Freedom, Beauty and so on – you will feel immersed in and supported by the flow of Creation and you will see them reflected back to you from the outside. When you focus on pain or distress, they project outward into an image you see in the world, only this time you do not feel supported by the flow of Creation. The reason is that, through your focus on the pain, you have temporarily cut yourself off from experiencing Creation’s qualities in you.
By taking your mind off of what is distressing you and by refocusing on the good, the lovely and the beautiful, with the help of your inner teacher, you allow a window inside to open up through which Love and Beauty can come back into your experience.