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Don’t Force Yourself To Be Happy About Something You Hate. Create What You'll Love.

1/30/2019

The Happiness Path. Change your past, change your future. Joanne Wilshin

Maybe you’ve heard people tell you when you’re angry, worried, sad, or jealous, “Let it go,” or “Stop thinking about it.”

Or maybe you’ve read ads telling you, “Release negative emotions with essential oils [or yoga, running, etc.]”

What all these suggestions miss, lovely and well-intended as they are, is that you’re never going to feel better until the thing causing your emotion change for the better.

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This is Not How This Story Ends. Instead . . .

1/29/2019

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You know those times, big and small, that trigger your fear, anger, jealous, and sadness? A loved one becomes sick. An accident happens. Someone achieves something you yourself want. You lose something dear to you.
In each of these moments, your emotional response is appropriate just for you. Any responses that is not happiness reveals that you want something else instead.

If a dear one becomes sick, your sadness and worry indicate you want the person well.
If an accident happens, and people and things are harmed or lost, your sadness and anger show you want these people and things safe and comfortable

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Joanne Wilshin

is the author of Take a Moment and Create Your Life! and The Happiness Path. She facilitates workshops and creative circles, and provides lectures and individual coaching to support understanding both the creative process and how the mind-matter phenomenon can be harnessed for personal and worldly benefit. She lives with her husband David in northwestern Washington.

Don’t Force Yourself To Be Happy About Something You Hate. Create What You'll Love.

This is Not How This Story Ends. Instead . . .

Joanne Wilshin

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