Waiting to be happy: the meaning of the 'if' and the bomb

Frederic returns to the February session, where he said he would be happy if his life kept getting easier, was asked why he said 'if', and where Renée saw the Wonders hand him a bomb.

The Wonders reframe it as a question: why is he waiting for something to happen before he becomes happy?

They point out how often he says that if this or that occurred he would be happy or happier, and ask why happiness should be conditional on events in third dimensional reality.

When he says he feels happy now but senses he could be happier, they ask what he is not allowing himself to be, and warn that if he always defines his existence as lacking something, he will never fill the lack and never reach the happiness he seeks.

Their suggestion is that he simply look at his life and say 'I am happy', full stop — happy whether or not he has this or that — so that happiness is his state of being rather than something defined by what he has or lacks, at which point his life changes.

They illustrate with the song 'if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands', noting he would then be clapping all the time.

Frederic says he will observe and catch himself, since his first answer would have been that he is happy.