We all want to feel good.

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It is a natural drive.

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To increase the amount of time we feel wonderful.

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So why do we have such a hard time doing it?

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It is amazing how what we want so badly is so hard for us to hold.

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For we all have a limit on how long we can feel good.

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Is it a day, a week or a month?

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Perhaps even shorter, like an hour or a few minutes?

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When we take a moment to stop and look at how long we can allow ourselves to feel good we can learn a lot.

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Our beliefs around feeling good are deep and ingrained.

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Do we deserve to feel?

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Have we earned the right to feel good?

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What have we done to help others to feel good?

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It is truly fascinating how many conditions we put on just feeling good where we are.

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How we must somehow ear the right or deserve the right to feel good instead of just allowing it to be okay.

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Why do we need to work at feeling good?

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This whole notion of having to earn or deserve feeling good is actually something manmade and not natural.

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When we look at babies that have not yet been conditioned by society, they laugh and smile for no reason at all.

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Feeling good is our natural state of being.

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It is not something to work at or create.

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Of course, for those of us who have experienced trauma and extreme pain, it may not feel that way.

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Because the trauma and pain were not natural to begin with, so they affect our natural feelings.

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Feeling good is actually not something to work at.

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It is just something to allow.

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And the truly interesting thing is that the more we allow it, the more great stuff comes our way.

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So feeling good creates more opportunity for us to feel good.

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The better we feel on a daily basis the more experiences and situations come to us that support our feeling good.

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And the opposite is also true.

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The worse we feel the more bad feeling stuff comes our way.

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So in the end, the more we focus on feeling good and allowing that feeling to continue for as long as we can, supports us having the life we have always wanted.

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Letting go of all the voices on our head and all the stories we have made about why we should not feel good is our deep work.

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When we allow ourselves to feel good for no reason at all, or just for being alive, we have truly achieved something great.

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So what do you need to release in order to feel good more of the time?

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Are there stories you have created about why not to feel good that you want to change?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour