12. Happiness Isn’t the Goal
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Ashlie Molstad
4.2 • 940 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Nah. Happiness isn’t the goal. Resilience is. Confidence is. Growth is.
We can’t be happy all of the time, and yet, we’re taught from such a young age that happiness is all that matters. So, when we inevitably find ourselves in seasons or situations that leave us feeling something other than happy and joyful, we make it mean that there is something wrong with us.
What if, instead of being in constant pursuit of happiness, we focused on being in constant pursuit of presence… no matter what emotion comes up.
In todays episode I’ll break down what this looks like in real time practice. And how to shift your thinking so that when you’re feeling an emotion that doesn’t feel great, its not because you’re doing it wrong. You’re doing it exactly right. Lean into it. Learn from it. Grow stronger, more confident, more resilient.. and then, when happiness does greet you, bask in it for as long as its there… knowing it too, shall pass.
Todays episode is about feeling ALL of life.
See you inside 💥
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| 0:00.0 | We have put happiness on this pedestal as if that is the end all be all when we're not feeling |
| 0:07.0 | happy. We sort of feel like something is wrong. |
| 0:11.0 | Feeling it all is the goal and when you allow yourself to feel all of the emotions that |
| 0:17.9 | life has to offer you become so much stronger and so much more resilient and so much more powerful. Hello beautiful friends. Oh my gosh we're back for another week together another |
| 0:42.3 | session together I've been |
| 0:45.0 | loving this time I've been loving this podcast in this community that we are |
| 0:49.6 | creating and building and it's also challenged me because I am committed to bringing you content that isn't a waste of your time ever. |
| 1:01.0 | I have to make sure that if you're going to spend 30 minutes with me and time is our most valuable resource, |
| 1:08.0 | that it's got to be a damn good use of your 30 minutes because we don't have extra 30 minutes all the time to waste it, right? |
| 1:16.6 | So it's not lost on me that you continue to come back and share this with the people that you love and share it with yourself, right? Do the work because you love yourself too or |
| 1:28.4 | you're working towards that. And it's also been beautiful, it's challenging me because it continues to force me to show up. |
| 1:36.0 | And not just halfway, not haphazardly, not half fast. |
| 1:40.0 | I've got to continue to do the work myself because as I mentioned a couple |
| 1:45.0 | episodes ago I am not coming to you as some healed perfect human who never struggles I'm coming to you as someone who's in the trenches |
| 1:56.9 | and this week I have been in the trenches with my brain and my body. I am learning more and more about how food is impacting my life and |
| 2:11.1 | my experience, my mental health. There's no denying. I mean there's scientific |
| 2:16.6 | evidence everywhere that your brain and your gut are deeply connected and |
| 2:21.6 | intertwined and I don't know. are deeply connected and intertwined. |
| 2:23.2 | And I don't know if maybe I was so disconnected |
| 2:26.7 | from my body for so long, because I had been outsourcing |
| 2:30.1 | my whole life that, you know, and maybe I had some of these symptoms forever and I |
| 2:35.8 | just didn't pick up on them because of that disconnect or if it is now compound |
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