Daily Om: Happiness is an experience we all
long for and deserve in our lives. We may wish for the happiness that
comes with a much-needed vacation, yet
when the actual experience of happiness emerges, we may be too overcome
with guilt to enjoy it.
If guilt is interfering with your ability to
feel joy, you may find relief in looking at the beliefs you hold about
yourself and what it means for you to be happy.
Guilt about feeling happy can arise for different reasons. Deep down you
may believe that you don't deserve to be happy because you hurt someone
in the past, had more than others growing up, or maybe you received a
mean comment from someone you admire. Perhaps it once seemed that
painful experiences always followed happy ones; now whenever you begin
to feel happy, you find yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop....read more>>>...