Do you ever feel “too happy”?
Do you ever find yourself wondering whether you deserve your happiness? Scared it won’t last? Anticipating the come down when it’s at its peak? Resisting it so you don’t fall too hard? Scared it will shadow others, who may not be so happy? Scared you may lose control, enter unknown waters?
Many of us don’t feel familiar with joy. We spend so much time planning for the worst, that when sunshine hits our heart, we simply don’t know how to act.
As the writer Henry Miller beautifully said: “the most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. As long as there is something to fight, people seem able to brave all manner of hardships. Remove the element of struggle and they are like fish out of water”
In this meditation I will be guiding you through a practice that gets you close-up to a moment of deep happiness and aliveness. You will be asked to get near it, to let it go and then welcome it again. The practice has two aims:
1. Build resilience: in difficult times, you can come back to this exercise to connect to the pool of happiness within you, so that you can feel stronger when facing hardships.
2. Feel at home in happiness: by practicing sitting with happiness, you learn to welcome it more fully, without fear, rejection, or attachment. You become comfortable with letting your aliveness shine through, without feeling overwhelmed by it.
Sit back, relax, and do reach out if you have any questions on this exercise specifically or any broader questions on the practice! You can find me on instagram @scrapthescript
Light and love x
