What do you think is happening when you are not feeling okay? Do you think it is because the outside world is not okay, because other people are behaving badly or that there is something wrong with you? Looking for the source of your feelings can be a never ending search. I was seeking in that way for a long time and I looked in all those places. It was fruitless, exhausting and led to burnout! You see, your feelings have one piece of information in them. That suffering you are experiencing is only telling you one thing. It's telling you that you are believing something that isn't true!  That your thinking is off. Every time you see this, something falls away; a bit of conditioned thought, some old learned stuff or some lie you were told. Then there is relief and less suffering.

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