Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Are you ever suspicious when good things happen?

Maybe an opportunity comes your way,

or someone you love gives you an amazing compliment or maybe you just got a pay increase out of the blue or

you went to you know some local event and you made an amazing new friend and you're like,

wow this person's really awesome. Huh, she just came out of nowhere.

Do you ever feel suspicious when good things happen?

Like you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak?

You know, a friend of mine, I remember this a few years ago, Her business was just going so well like year

after year was just like this record growth and I was like how do you feel

about that? She said you know I'm anxious I'm nervous like when is this going to stop like what's going to happen you know

her initial her initial feeling was of course joy and like excitement, but almost like in less

in a second the next thought the next emotion was fear like is this going to go away? You know, having studied the work of Gay Hendrix, this is an amazing podcast interview, by the way, he speaks about the upper limit problem in his book The Big Leap.

I've come to understand now that as human beings we're only comfortable

with a certain level of joy.

We actually create like a false container, a false limit, a false

ceiling in terms of how good we're willing to allow our lives to be. If everything's going smoothly, like you know our health is good, money's

good, relationships are good, nothing really to worry about. We then start creating

false problems because when life's too good it feels so

uncomfortable and different we have to start worrying almost again to get back to

our the level of comfort that we feel with life being only so good.

It can feel unsafe to even be too joyful.

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