My biggest learning of 2024, the most challenging and painful year of my life, is that the more I widened my capacity to actually experience what I was experiencing, the more my baseline of joy and happiness increased.
Whenever I felt fear, hurt, anxiety, any unwelcome emotion, instead of distracting myself from it, I went into it and tried to feel it as fully as I could. This, I found, over time made me happier, more peaceful and more resilient.