A Daily Dose of Happiness

“There is a world of difference between searching for happiness and following your joy,” Robert says, “and unless you cultivate a relationship to joy, no amount of pleasure or satisfaction will ever be enough.” Today, you’ll discover the fundamentals of cultivating a relationship to joy by learning the five signs that you are following yours. Robert also leads you through a two-minute exercise, the Following Your Joy Meditation, to tune you directly in to your higher wisdom. 

“Happiness is not just the absence of sadness,” Robert says. “It is also the capacity to love and heal sadness.” Today, you’ll learn about the purpose of unhappiness and why you should never be afraid or ashamed of sadness—for within it is a message, lesson, and gift to help you heal. Robert guides you in a powerful Short Course in Emotional Healing—five potent principles that will help you heal unhappiness—and leads you through a revolutionary exercise called Interviewing Unhappiness so that you can discover what your feelings want you to know. 

“Happiness is outgrowing the need to keep on suffering,” Robert says, and today he dives into explaining what he calls The Suffering Ethic: the mistaken idea that in order to be happy, you have to suffer. He goes through the five myths about suffering that you might unknowingly believe and busts each myth, one by one. He then guides you through a two-minute meditation to release the belief that you have to suffer in order to be happy.

“The quality of your relationship with ‘now’ will determine how much happiness you will experience in this lifetime,” Robert says. Today, he teaches you to cultivate a deeper relationship with the now—your “greatest teacher”—for a happier future. He also confronts the notion of “destination addiction,” one of the major barriers to experiencing the joy of the present moment, and then guides you in a 90-second meditative writing exercise to help you rest in the now. 

In this beautiful closing lesson, Robert teaches you one of the greatest keys to happiness: sympathetic joy. Stemming from a powerful Buddhist philosophy, sympathetic joy simply means allowing yourself to be truly happy for the happiness of others—for doing so consistently raises your own level of joy. It is also an antidote to two huge blocks to happiness: envy and competition. Robert closes out your week by guiding you through a short five-part meditation that he dubs “the ultimate prescription for mental health,” based on the Buddhist idea of loving-kindness.

As a special bonus gift, you’ll hear from the late self-help goddess herself Louise Hay as she talks to Robert about the importance of tuning in to your “inner ding,” your inner wisdom and knowing, no matter what the outside world is telling you. This 22-minute interview is rich with wisdom from Louise as she reflects on her life’s journey and her own path to happiness.