Some people might tell you that if you have to try to be happy, maybe you’re not really happy. Perhaps this is a romantic idea of happiness, much like the romantic, Hollywood idea of love - that it doesn’t take effort, that it will happen of its own accord, that we don’t have to work on it.

Yet, when we look inside ourselves, directing our attention to the sacrum and the solar plexus, we might find that we observe a little light within us, a simple happiness connecting our body through the vagus nerve.

If we apply a little extra pressure, a little squeeze, we might feel even better, as if we’re tickling ourselves from the inside. Can we will ourselves to be happy?

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