Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

What we get wrong about joy.

I love love this topic because often even in coaching or when we're doing a lot of self-expiration and self-examination, we say, you know, we love to

ask this question, what brings you joy? And this question is well intended for us to kind of reconnect with and understand the parts of our lives that bring us this feeling of passion and energy and creativity.

And joy is sometimes, well joy slash happiness, however you want to even define it, is so often

described as something outside of us, something we need to call in, bring in, allow in.

But I know that joy is your natural state. Look at the child, right? A child is irrefutable proof of this. Look at their natural state of being before they learn a whole lot of things about the world and how scary it is here and how dangerous. But look at a child,

their natural default state is happy, is in a state of peace, is in a state of just

presence and curiosity and certainly joy. Wayne Dye would always say that your

natural state is joy. So my question would be to you, if you're looking to seek more joy or acquire more joy or

happiness. Instead of thinking you know what brings it to me what makes me happy what

brings me joy the question would be what's blocking my joy. Joy is already who I am. I am

Joy I am happiness. What are the blocks I've thrown up that prevent me from experiencing it daily, always all the time.

Truly, what if it's always just this accessible well within us that we completely ignore because we've turned away from it.

I want to read you a quote from the late Indian psychotherapist Anthony Demello.

He said this in his gorgeous book The Perils and Opportunities of Reality.

To acquire happiness, you don't have to do anything because happiness cannot be acquired.

Does anybody know why?

It's because we have it already.

How can you acquire what you already have?

Then why don't you experience it?

It's because you've got to drop something.

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