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Expanding Your Capacity For Joy

by Salona Carlisle

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Sometimes, we want so much for things to change that it costs us our pleasure and our joy in the moment. We want so much to be somewhere else more than we’re willing to allow ourselves to feel good right where we are. We want things to be different more than we’re committed to doing whatever it takes to be happy in our current life no matter what. It’s ok if this is you right now or ever has been. Just know that it’s a choice and that this choice is always on offer wherever you are. And

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Transcript

I'm Solona Carlile and this is another edition of the Everyday Bliss for the Modern Woman Weekly Transmissions,

Created for the woman who is wildly devoted to choosing herself and living her desired life now instead of waiting until later.

Sometimes we want so much for things to change that it costs us our pleasure and our joy in the moment.

We want so much to be somewhere else,

More than we're willing to allow ourselves to feel good right where we are.

Sometimes we want things to be different,

More than we're committed to doing whatever it takes to be happy in our current lives,

No matter what the circumstances may be.

We want so much for our own life to look more like someone else's experience,

That we completely diminish the radical beauty of our own and we totally block the sweetness of the life that we are living.

It's okay if this is you right now or ever has been.

I've totally been there,

Which is why I can speak about it.

Just know,

Just see it as a hint,

A nudge to remember that it is a choice and that this choice is always on offer wherever you are.

You can choose again in any moment you remember and desire to.

And also know that there's no wrong choice you could ever make.

There's simply the choice that is more loving to you and more honoring of your life.

There's the one that will lead to more freedom,

More delight,

More pleasure and satisfaction in the now versus more desperation,

Frustration and hopelessness.

And then there's the choice that you will thank yourself for over and over and over again versus the one that you may very well regret someday and wish you had chosen differently.

So the invitation is to simply choose for the outcome that you desire both now and later.

It's choosing for the experience of yourself and the experience of your life that you want to have now and for the one you want to look back on and feel deeply fulfilled,

Proud,

Content and as regret free as possible for how you showed up.

The moment that you're living is the only place where your power to create lives.

And there's nothing outside of you that you have to wait on even though sometimes it may really feel that way.

I'm not saying this is easy.

Sometimes it can feel really hard to let go of what we've been so committed to and what we've practiced for longer than we can even remember.

It does require a devotion,

A devotion to remembering that you are the only one who can claim for yourself the life that you really want.

This is why the women who come to me have decided that they're no longer willing to sacrifice their current joy for some future moment.

They've reached the point where it's become far more important to them to focus on making the life they have the greatest experience they could ever have rather than living for some future goal.

Because if you're waiting to reach that peak experience,

That destination,

That goal to really start living your life the way you want,

Then you've missed the point.

Meet your Teacher

Salona CarlisleConnecticut, USA

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