Lately I have been asking myself the question: is happiness the new “Stress” factor?
(Français plus bas)
There is a pressure of having to be happy lately. And I have put this pressure on myself in the last month, even though I know and teach these facts:
An emotion is an emotion. What I always say in class is “feel that challenging emotion. Welcome it. Live it so it can expulse itself faster from your body and mind, instead of being stucked somewhere. Then, restart slowly to smile and breathe, knowing that you have contributed to the release of this emotion.”
And another important fact: there is no negative vs positive emotions. We are the one taggin them as positive / negative and we do not like feeling the challenging ones, but an emotion is simply an emotion…something to meditate upon.
I encourage you to watch also this TED Talk on the subject of emotions.
Namaste
