Opening To Your Jewel Of Natural Joy & Ease - by Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha)

COURSE

Opening To Your Jewel Of Natural Joy & Ease

With Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha)

Imagine a large ice cube. At its center, shines a beautiful glittering jewel. The jewel represents your innate joy, but because it is encased in a block of ice you don’t have access to it. The ice in this image is a barrier, a barrier that prevents us from accessing the jewel of natural joy. This barrier is created by our rigidly held limiting beliefs - our thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors that keep our jewel of joy frozen and seemingly out of reach. If you want to access your jewel, you need to melt the ice. You can do this by simply putting it in the sun. The sun in our experience is mindfulness or awareness, and it is this quality, which helps to melt the ice and reveals your jewel of natural joy. This course is based on Suryacitta’s latest book, the "Happiness and Contentment Workbook" published in 2020.

StressStress & AnxietyConcentrationSpiritualitySpiritualityWisdomHealth & HappinessAcceptanceHappinessAwakeningSpiritualSecularOpen AwarenessMindfulnessSecular MindfulnessBreathing Meditation

Meet your Teacher

Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha)
Leicester, United Kingdom

Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha) has been meditating since 1989 and is an ordained member of the Triratna Buddhist Order. He has written five books on mindfulness, happiness, and compassion. Suryacitta teaches retreats and courses around the world and has appeared on the BBC radio and TV doing “thought for the day” and workshops on stress management. He is known as the mindfulness teacher's teacher and travels around the UK, Europe, and Australia teaching others how to sharpen and deepen their own teaching. Suryacitta is renowned for his humor and keeping his teachings, simple, direct and practical, and free from cliches and jargon.

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10 Days

2.1k students

4.8 stars

12 min / day

Stress

English

Lesson 1

Becoming Mushy

Here, Suryacitta explains how your true nature of joy and wonder gets obscured by rigidly held beliefs and habits with the use of a beautiful metaphor which he calls the jewel in the ice. He shows that what we need to do is to "melt the ice" to gain access to this wonderful and innate jewel of joy, that resides in all beings. We don't need to try to create the jewel in our lives but we need to pay attention to what obscures the already ever-present joy. He then guides you through a series of contemplations where questions are dropped into your subconscious mind, which often reveal responses that surprise even ourselves.

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Lesson 2

Meeting Your Intuition

We all have intuition, but we don’t always listen to it. The intuition knows things and sees things that the rational mind doesn’t know and see. Intuition can help guide you through your life. During this session, you will be introduced to your own intuition and will be shown how to access intuition to apply to your daily life.

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Lesson 3

My Limiting Beliefs

Beliefs are unexamined assumptions and views about ourselves, others, and life in general. Limiting beliefs hold us back and we often don’t realize it. Just by believing them, we stop behaving, feeling, and speaking in ways that are natural to us. These beliefs may be that you are unworthy, or that you don’t deserve to be happy, and are often hidden from your conscious mind. Through exploring and unearthing these beliefs we can free ourselves from their paralysis and feel once more the joy of life. There will be a short meditation and an exercise called, writing with the other hand.

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Lesson 4

A Little Forgiveness

One of the ways we form the ice, which separates us from our natural joy is that of holding onto resentments. These resentments may be things that people have said or done to you in the past or what we have said and done to ourselves. Somebody has to have the courage to begin the forgiveness process. During this session, there will be a short meditation where you will explore how to forgive through simple direct questions for you to reflect upon and melt more of the ice of unhappiness.

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Lesson 5

Compassionate Boundaries

In my experience of teaching mindfulness, I have realized how vitally important personal boundaries are to my own and others' well-being. Many of us struggle with this area in our lives, assuming that saying “no” will seem unkind, or being assertive will come across as aggressive. But healthy personal boundaries are an essential ingredient to a balanced and happy life. During this session, there will be a short meditation and you will explore how to develop healthy boundaries through an exercise and reflection.

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Lesson 6

From Thinking To Sensing

As most of us know, we spend far too much time in our heads - thinking. Much of this thinking creates problems that don’t happen, have never happened, and will never happen. This is the cause of much distress and is one of the ways we create the ice of unhappiness. There will be an exercise that shows you how to move from a life of overthinking to a life of sensing, and of living in the body. Through sensing, we can listen to the intuitive voice. There will be a short sensing meditation along with an exercise on over-thinking.

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Lesson 7

Dancing With Dragons

Many of us are uncomfortable with certain emotions: we don’t quite know what to do with them. However, it’s not really the emotions we experience which are problematic, it’s the ones we don’t experience. They can remain “stuck” year after year. What you will learn during this session is how to turn towards and gently experience whatever emotion is present. This will be done via a short talk and guided meditation.

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Lesson 8

Taking Off Your Masks

We all wear masks, and we all hide behind them. The very word ‘person’ derives from the Latin persona which means an actor’s mask. We wear different masks in different situations. One of our deepest desires is to show our authentic self, but it is also something we resist. During this session, you will be guided through a meditation on taking off the masks and revealing your true self - the one that sits behind and beyond. The one that is waiting to shine.

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Lesson 9

Where Is Your Wildness?

For over 25 years, the single biggest theme people bring to courses and retreat is their own struggle and the unhappiness this creates. What I observe is that they have lost touch with their “wildness.” Your wild energy is your life energy, it connects you to nature, to people and it is always joyful. During this session, there will be guided meditation and you will be asked to engage in a short writing exercise about getting in touch with your wildness.

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Lesson 10

Revisiting The Intuitive Self

In this session, we revisit the intuitive self, the wiser self, and we get to ask the most important question in our life at the moment. Often, after the initial visit and the work we do here, there is a deeper opening and trust in listening to the intuitive self. Here, we are going to ask a new question and to see what this unique part of us has to say about our life.

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4.8 (94)

Recent Reviews

Rachael

May 2, 2025

Brilliant course, reflective, helpful and gentle. Thank-you

Courtney

April 9, 2025

There are no words to express how impactful and important this is. It is everything.

Judith

February 15, 2025

A lovely accessible and heart-felt offering to connect you more deeply to yourself. Beautiful. 🙏🏼❤️

Geraldine

February 12, 2025

🙏🧊🌞💎🙏

Katie

January 20, 2025

Well paced and explained. I feel more able to trust my intuition!

Sheila

November 2, 2024

Fabulous course

Claire

August 2, 2024

Many thanks Suryacitta for your wise and gentle guidance. Wonderful course with much to reflect on. I will be revisiting very soon to repeat the exercises. Ready to listen to my intuitive self and very excited to buddy up with my wild self! Yihaa. Blessings to you 🙏

Patricia

May 19, 2024

Excellent course. Love the exercises to really get in touch with different parts of myself. Will do the course again- probably many times. Thank you for sharing this wisdom 🤗

Sara

May 17, 2024

thank you that was beautiful

*+*Ness

March 24, 2024

Great content and delivery, I’ll come back to this course again 😊

Wendy

March 23, 2024

Suryacitta is a wonderful teacher and guide. A gem. Give this course a try and then repeat it. Discover, with delight, that he has more courses and a wealth of tracks. I have yet to get through them all but i know each every one will be a gift. He is a treasure. And he does Live events here as well — I just realized that! Thank you, Suryacitta. You have clearly found your calling. xo

Lucy

November 29, 2023

Thank you for the beautiful course and your beautiful energy

Tito

October 28, 2023

Very helpful exercises to know my intuitive self

Lisa

September 3, 2023

I found this course to be light hearted yet still meaningful. I’ll continue to use the tools presented and continue to converse with my intuitive self. Thank you for sharing and for making my intuitive self so approachable.

Catherine

August 2, 2023

I really enjoyed this course. It was very insightful, uplifting and helpful! I look forward to using these tools in my daily practice. Thank you!🙏

Kareena

May 22, 2023

Gratitude! 😃

Vicki

April 6, 2023

Thanks for guiding so helpfully, my inner journey

Sean

January 20, 2023

An absolute pleasure and blessing to be able to enjoy this course. It's often the highlight of my day, I always bounce into it excited and bounce out of it with a smile

Raj

July 18, 2022

Thoroughly engaging and enjoyable course!

Maura

June 19, 2022

Thank you for the journey. I will enjoy these ideas while traveling along life’s road 🦋

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