Hello, my friend and fellow traveler on the path, and welcome to this impromptu bonus episode of our ongoing series, Inner Revolution, right here on the Inner Work, Spiritual Growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I am a certified intuitive healer and Akashik Records master teacher.

And I am so honored and delighted that you have tuned in today.

So I wanted to tackle with you a topic that could be perhaps a little bit controversial in some senses, but I've been thinking about this. I've been reflecting on this

for a couple of days now and thought it might be worth sharing some of these reflections

that have been emerging for me. So the question that I want to pose today really is,

are we meant to be happy all of the time? Like, are we really meant to be happy all of the time?

Like, are we really meant to be happy all of the time 24-7?

So where does this question come from?

Just the other day, I was listening to a couple of videos

from a spiritual teacher that I had never heard before.

Just someone forwarded this to me.

And I was checking that out.

And this particular teacher, you know, kept saying that it is our true nature to be happy, to be joyful, you know, all of the time or most of the time.

So basically this idea, which is really prevalent in the spiritual community,

that we are meant to be happy all of the time or that our natural condition is joy and is happiness.

And that if you're not feeling joy and happiness every minute of every day,

then something has gone wrong, right?

Or you are not in your natural state and something is getting in the way.

So let's examine this a little bit more deeply and unpack some of these ideas because,

well, also let me say, first of all, I myself am guilty of saying some of these kinds of things in the past.

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