Choose Happy, No Matter What
About this episode
This episode discusses the importance of welcoming fear and misfortune with love and compassion as part of the 'Choose Happy' practice.
Dear Choose Happy Community, Some days fear shows up at the door. Other days it feels like misfortune or self-doubt. Drawing from Rumi’s wisdom, this teaching invites us to try something radical: welcome it in with love. The practice of “Choose Happy” is not about avoiding our feelings, but about meeting them with compassion and honesty. When we stop running from ourselves and start loving what we find, the heart naturally begins to open. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “Rumi says that every day some new thing shows up. It could be at your door, there’s a fear, and it feels like a foe. Or, at your door there is what feels like misfortune, and Rumi says to just welcome it in. Welcome in your fear. Welcome in your misfortune. “And so through the practice of Choose Happiness, we learn to extend love to whatever-to everything. So I’m going to show love to my fear. I’m going to show love to that thing in me that feels less than. I learned this when I was five. I’m going to show love to that part of me that wants to give up. “So that’s what Choose Happy teaches us. And so, in and of itself, it invites us to invite everything in. You cannot bypass yourself. Wherever…
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- Heal the Pain You’ve Been Avoiding
- Be the Light in Everyday Moments
- From Anger to Equanimity
- See the Divine in Yourself First
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