So my episode earlier this week was on Being Happy and gave you lots of tips for that and I wanted to actually dive a little deeper and answer the question is being happy all the time possible. So do you find that you've taken on the expectation that you're supposed to be happy all the time,

especially if you've done a lot of personal growth work

and you have all this information in your head

about positive thinking, like you're supposed to be happy all the time, right?

Well, sure, eternal happiness sounds awesome, yet this expectation

that we should be able to be in a positive place all the time can be the very thing that alludes

us from actually experiencing it. How? Well, when we pressure or force

ourselves to be a certain way, which involves avoiding the reality of our current feelings,

we engage in what's called Spiritual Bypass. So Spiritual Bypass is a process of attempting

to high vibe yourself out of what you perceive as a negative feeling instead of allowing

yourself to feel it and heal it.

Don't get me wrong.

Joy, love, and peace are our essence.

But if you haven't noticed, we are all still humid

and have moments where that's not exactly our experience.

So in today's Coaches Corner, I want to encourage you to accept the contrast of your human experience

and offer you tips for how to move through those not so happy moments.

I recently spoke at an event and at the start the group went around the room and shared

what was present for them. I observed that everyone chose very positive

uplifting words which was beautiful, yet intuitively I could feel that several of

the people there were not really congruent energetically with what they were saying.

You know, they were just kind of saying positive uplifting things because everybody else was saying

...