What I learned:  This week I enjoyed learning and thinking more about foreboding joy.  How we can have a hard time feeling joy without worry that something bad might happen.   That is something pretty normal that we call feel.  But we can choose to be grateful in the moment to help get rid of those feelings and lean into the joy - despite it feeling quite vulnerable.  

The other thing I learn is about our Happiness set point.  Most of us have pretty regular thoughts and emotions throughout our day and when things get too happy or too sad our body tries to find ways to get us back to our set point.  We sometimes choose to eat food to raise or lower our emotions or we can do other things like social media, drugs or even more damaging things if we can't learn to stand it.  Sometimes that is called buffering - many people do that when they don't want to feel bad.  But we can also do that when we are uncomfortable feeling good.  So as we learn and think about that we can do a few things to help raise our happiness set point.  We can think about our emotions and what our top 3 ones are throughout a normal day.  And then if we want to change that we can work on times when we try to get ourselves to feel a different way. 

Other things that can help us raise our happiness set point is to do things for other people.  As we help other people we find ourselves feeling more of a purpose.