Better Than Happy

Is happiness a myth?

What if the pursuit of happiness is the very thing keeping you from experiencing the fullness, the richness of your life?

What if all the time and energy spent in this pursuit is stealing your joy, your peace, and even your happiness?

You might be thinking I've gone over the deep end, but stay with me on this for just a minute.

We’ve been conditioned to believe if we are not feeling happy that something has gone terribly wrong and needs to be fixed immediately.

Cue the unprocessed stuffed emotions, unconscious scrolling, add to carting, or eating to avoid feeling the slightest bit uncomfortable.

The fact is that we ALL experience emotions that are not ‘happy’. We experience fear, and doubt, and humiliation, and shame.

We then stack on more suffering because we believe we ‘shouldn’t’ be feeling that way.

So we resist, avoid, hide, and berate ourselves for not being happy.

But what if that’s wrong?

Is it possible that these emotions are just part of the human experience?

Listen, you can keep believing that we should all be happy all the time……

But why would you? What purpose does it serve?

How would your life be different if you knew that the contrast of the emotional spectrum was necessary to truly experience the profound beauty of joy or love or awe or peace.

I would argue that there is deep and immense beauty in the very difficult and painful emotions as well. But we miss the experience of that beauty when we are so desperately trying to run away from the feeling.

To feel pain we must first love, to experience loss we must first have, to feel the cold we must first be warm.

This concept freed me, it created space for ‘negative’ emotions, it created safety for me to feel them without thinking something had gone terribly wrong.

Try it on, see how it feels to you.

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