Happiness and Joy

Online course with Lynn Fraser

Joy Bliss Satisfaction Contentment Balance

Alignment Peace Meaningful life Happiness

Did you know there are happiness researchers now? We all want to be happy. What contributes to it? What are the obstacles?

“I’m too stressed to worry about happiness right now.”  ”I don’t deserve to be happy because I hurt someone I love.”  “Focusing on my own happiness is selfish.” “When ___ happens, then I’ll be happy.”

Meditation, inquiry and mindfulness offer potent tools to clearly see and dissolve negative, anxious, and compulsive thought patterns. Defense mechanisms, including addiction and isolation are numbing, shutting out both pain and joy. Judging our bodies as not good enough can consume us for decades. Inherent in over-identification with and resistance to life events is the built-in dissatisfaction of grasping and seeking.

In the twenty years I’ve been teaching meditation, I’ve learned about the bodymind, the brain and the mechanics of thought. The Living Inquiries are a specific process of working with words, images and sensations that acts like a short-cut or amplifier to working effectively with the bodymind. Participants receive six private facilitated Living Inquiries sessions to experience this first hand. Living Inquiries,  Natural Rest and kindness are at the root of the group classes, guided practices and discussion.