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Let's be studio. Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Head Space. So it's Tuesday, I wonder how you're feeling today. I got an email from somebody yesterday, saying how they've been experiencing lockdown.

Well there was one question in there in particular that kind of intrigued me and he said,

was it okay to feel happy when there was so much difficulty in the world?

So many people struggling in the world.

Of course the truth is that are always many, many people struggling in the world, suffering in the world. It's just that we don't always see it, we're not always exposed to it, and we're not all experiencing in such a sort of a similar sort of vein across so many nations in the way we are right now.

So it raises the question as well of how we think about emotions.

Because the question suggests that we can almost choose what emotion we have.

Is it okay to feel happy or should I feel a different way?

But it's not that we get to choose. If we were able to choose,

we would simply choose the emotions that we like and have more of those and we would

shut out the ones that we don't like and have less of them.

Of course that's not how the mind responds and it also suggests that there's only room in our

mind for sort of one emotion at one time and that we can't necessarily experience

compassion at the same time as feeling happy.

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