Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

"What is grief but love persevering" #Shorts

19 May 2023 · 1 min

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Vishen Lakhiani argues that grief contains wisdom and that chasing constant positivity is a mistake. Instead of suppressing hard feelings, let them arise, sit with them, and ask: now what? He illustrates with death, illness, and business failure.

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What is grief but love persevering I think there's so much beautiful wisdom in these emotions. Common misconception in the personal worldview is that you have to always be positive. Happiness definitely has its advantages like being in happy blissful states correlates with better health it correlates with better friendships, longevity but shit does happen in life we will, we will experience. Almost everyone will experience the death of a loved one Almost everyone I know has experienced moments where they were in bed hospitalized Almost every entrepreneur I know has faced inevitable bankruptcy or failure and you cannot be positive you cannot just be happy in these moments. There's this beautiful wisdom in seeking to feel and embrace what you're feeling and letting those feelings come in but then being able to introspect to go within to try to understand what we would have done differently how are we going to cope or like you say in the title of your book well that sucked. Now what? Now what do I do?