The Connection Between Joy and Emotional Honesty

Chasing happiness may serve as a way to run away from pain.

Instead, practice finding joy through emotional honesty.

We may try to chase happiness or pleasure hoping that this “thing” or that “experience” will help us reach inner-peace.

In truth, it is the emotion of "joy" that we are seeking and struggling to grasp.

The reason we cannot get to "happiness-joy" is because joy is only accessed in the depths of emotional honesty found here in the present moment.

When we can allow ourselves to be present and feel all the emotions including pain, joy, anger, loss, etc., then we can find the inner-peace and connection we so desperately seek.

Aim for emotional honesty with yourself (and when communicating to others) and access the beautiful duality of joy and pain that is present in your life.