85. Happy, Happier, Happiest: 8 Ways to Expand Our Capacity for Joy
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Research shows that despite spiritual practice, most of us have a consistent set-point for happiness. While we can experience deep joy or sorrow, we often return to the same level of happiness. However, it is possible to reset our happiness set-point and break negative thought patterns. Tune in for this live-recorded episode as Monica and Michael Berg discuss both the science and the kabbalistic tools behind living more joyfully every day.
“It can’t just be about how we can feel zen or good. It’s more about how we can activate, create, and influence change and happiness in the world, and thereby receive more of it for ourselves.” – Monica Berg
Further Readings:
Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, by Ed Diener
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| 0:00.0 | Wake up every single day and ask yourself the question of all the lack that I feel in the world, right? |
| 0:14.0 | Whatever I'm feeling in this day, instead of saying, okay, where is that and how is it going to feed me, |
| 0:18.3 | you actually ask the question, how can I offer this to somebody, anybody? |
| 0:22.6 | Please give me the opportunities. |
| 0:24.2 | This is how you change your baseline for happiness. |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to spiritually hungry podcast episode 85. You feel so far for me. |
| 0:40.0 | I know. Do you want to come closer? Let's hold hands. No, it's good. I don't know you can move anything. |
| 0:45.3 | When we started our podcast, it was during the pandemic and our table was about like this big. |
| 0:53.6 | And we were knee to knee because we shared one mic. And we were eye to eye. And it was the most intimate and vulnerable I think we've ever been. And we did that for about 20 weeks, I think. Yeah. And I was the engineer. I recorded everything. Yes. And there was one episode... It was really fun that one time you lost the whole one. |
| 1:12.9 | Exactly. And we got to do it all over again the next day. |
| 1:16.2 | So, um, I'm gonna start with a story today, because I know how you like my stories. |
| 1:20.5 | Love your stories. And I think it's one that you might recognize. |
| 1:23.3 | Oh. So it's about a girl who met a boy a few years back. |
| 1:29.2 | And this was the girl. |
| 1:30.8 | She was, well, when they first met, she was 17. |
| 1:35.9 | I'm pretty sure I know the story then. |
| 1:38.3 | And then when they really met, she was about 22. |
| 1:44.5 | And she was sad a lot of the time. |
| 1:48.0 | Does her name rhyme with harmonica? |
| 1:52.0 | You're ruining the story. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm sorry, I'm sorry. |
| 1:54.0 | So she was kind of had a low level sadness for most of her life. |
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