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Why Hope & Seeking Happiness Will Cause You More Grief.
You can’t feel joy in seeking and hoping.
Close your eyes for a second and think back to a moment when you were on your own and felt true joy, maybe you were in nature or home after a time away, that feeling doesn’t leave when we’re flowing. Even in the midst of despair, that inner joy can and does ground you.
The point is to find joy in something that doesn’t attach itself to anyone or anything, it simply is. Once you’ve got a good hold of that feeling, relax as you exhale (shoulders relaxed and stomach deflating), and breathe in feelings of joy on the inhale (shoulders relaxed and stomach inflating).
Now, mindfully do the same with feelings of hope and seeking happiness, can you feel how joy doesn’t connect itself to any lacking? Did you notice it takes more work to muster hope and seeking?
Are you missing out on all the joys of life dragging around baggage? This doesn’t count if you’ve been through recent trauma, the only way you can prevent adding it to an already heavy load, is to process that trauma.
