by KellyKeelo | Apr 28, 2015 | DETOX, HAPPINESS, KELLY KEELO, MEDITATION, MENTAL WELLNESS
We all claim to want to be happy. Happiness is part of the dream, isn’t it? That moment of triumph when you feel a level of success at your “whatever”. When everything falls into place so that you get to bask in the glow of your awesomeness. It’s what is supposed to be driving us all. But if you grew up in an environment that was less than ideal struggling just to keep focused, how do you learn what “being happy” actually means? I realize that I have met quite a few Negative Energy Addicts…being a former addict myself. Yup. “My name is Kelly Keelo and I am a Negative Energy Addict….Heyyy Everyone.”  I realized several years ago my addiction by paying attention to my thoughts. If my mind was left to its own devices, its conversations with me were pretty harsh. It told me what I wasn’t doing. who didn’t like or love me, all the potential problems that could possibly happen, and how ugly the world was. And I wondered, why does my mind come back to that pattern over and over again? Why was I choosing (even when everything was going well) to focus on what was wrong? The truth was I never learned what happiness felt like. My home life wasn’t necessarily happy and kids in elementary school weren’t super kind. By the time I got to high school I was just a shell trying to fit in. My high school was more concerned with teaching us 3 languages then improving our internal dialogue. So I learned to be book smart and emotionally messy. I thought...
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