Emotional Intelligence #4

I feel like, for the first time in my life I'm catching a clear glimpse of the door on the cage I created.

Endorphins come naturally in our brains. They're kicked off resulting in feelings of pleasure from a bunch of things; drugs, electronics, exercise - a bunch of things. We...I am caught in the cage of only allowing myself to feel happy when I'm accomplishing something that I think is related to who I am. If I THINK I'm failing or am not sufficient or being rejected as a husband or father (my son told me to disappear from the earth last night) provider, therapist, athlete, household keeper-together (I'm a cleaner), I get anxious, stressed, depressed, etc. because I've allowed myself to be wrongfully defined by those concepts. I've allowed those external pieces to dictate my own perceived VALUE. IDENTITY. And I'm beginning to love who I am enough to think maybe this old way of thinking isn't the best.

Is this concept the key to unlocking complete joy that's not contingent on how well we think we're "doing" in life? I feel like I'm about to level up!

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