I’m consistently amazed at how your messages reach me exactly when I need to hear them- always at the exact right time that I am going through something specific- like the happy sadness- I am literally there- and then your message… boom! All I can say is THANK YOU🙏 you help me understand my life!
Thank you Jeff!!! I just moved and said goodbye to a chapter of my life and have been reflecting on these ideas a lot. I feel refreshed and inspired!!
“no matter how hard I try to hold on to something or someone, everything – including myself – is continually slipping away.” This captures my current state perfectly. 😮💨
As I prepare myself and my family for a big move across the country (logistical preparations - but more so working through all the emotions), this meditation could not have come at a better or more needed time. Happysad is exactly it. Thank you Bluey.
Greetings from Jersey in the Channel Islands - i would send a picture of the sea if i could. I just wanted to say thank you for the meditation - today is a low day for me and it helped.
I have to say, I don’t even know where to start with my thoughts on this meditation. It may have been the most painful, powerful, and important one I’ve ever done.
To be honest, the pain started before the meditation, just reading this wisdom of your son, Jeff….”He told me he misses and loves his Babogie even though Babogie is right here.” I understood this so viscerally, it sort of seared through me. I look at my dogs every day and miss them terribly, while they are right in front of me. I look at my husband all the time and ache over our impermanence and knowing that one of us will leave the other at some point. My problem is not so much a lack of understanding of impermanence, or the awareness of it, but moreso that I am on the opposite end of the continuum. I cried the night our first dog came into our lives because I knew she would leave me some day. (I’m surprised my husband didn’t leave me that night seeing my insanity on full display. haha!)
So, the questions that came up so painfully for me during this meditation were…WHAT THE FUCK am i holding onto so f’ing tightly, and maybe even more importantly WHY??? WHERE DID I GET STUCK in the development continuum.
I understand that everything is in flux…nothing is ever the same after the microsecond in which that “snapshot” is taken….What was happening at the start of this sentence is no longer happening as I end it now. I intrinsically understand this, and have become more mindful of it as my meditation practice and learning has grown. But it feels more like a constant state of grief for me than regeneration. And that is what I need to explore.
The loving kindness bit at the end….well….that pretty much threw me off the cliff….I started spontaneously bawling….painfully….like ugly-crying…..Jeff, you asked us to consider someone or some people we love, and perhaps even consider them in their younger and older selves…..I immediately had this painful pouring in of images….my husband when we met….and then him last year, ravaged by cancer….my mother when I was a child, and now… my grandmother, no longer with us… my puppies…and then images of them turning into old dogs…..and myself….myself as a “pup”….and now….
It all hurt so much, and in fact, as i’m typing this, the tears are streaming and like, it hurts. So, there is something that needs to be explored here.
I just want to wrap by saying thank you, Jeff. Because to be honest, the release was obviously needed. And continues to be. Thank you for understanding us and for helping us understand ourselves.
Happy, but nervous system is sad. Happy to go on holiday, but sad to fly. Son leaving primary school, happy for new opportunities but sad it all gets so serious. Happy sad works perfectly for the human experience 🤗
One of the positions I hold in life is caregiving. I help those with surgery, illness, and advanced age, etc. When "my people" move on to the next adventure I am happysad. They are free of the pain and fear, me heart is sad. My husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer just over 4 years ago. We found your daily guidance as part of the treatments. Today he is thriving! Everyday is happysad. Happy to be on this beautiful journey, sad that we have to be... Thank you Jeff, for your present realness, equanimity, inspiration, grounding, and somewhat chaotic beauty - everyday you are a part of this healing journey. ❤️ Really - thank you. Mean it!
Thank you Jeff! My younger daughter is a senior in high school, in the midst of all her ‘lasts’—last prom, last variety show, last history exam. Creating a slide show of her life for her grad party has definitely been a happysad activity. Hold those little hands every chance you get! She still holds mine sometimes❤️
Thank you Jeff Warren. I have been doing your "Daily Trip" Meditations for a quite some time now and I enjoy them and always find something new and inspiring to reflect upon and to help ground me for my day ahead.🙏 I really enjoyed this one too today, especially at this time in my life. I too have small children and, they/we used to love watching Bluey too! This meditation of yours today really helped to bring me home and to stay present. 🙏🌸🙏😊
I’m consistently amazed at how your messages reach me exactly when I need to hear them- always at the exact right time that I am going through something specific- like the happy sadness- I am literally there- and then your message… boom! All I can say is THANK YOU🙏 you help me understand my life!
I love this. Jeff helps me understand my life, too. Which is pretty miraculous. lol
Thank you Jeff!!! I just moved and said goodbye to a chapter of my life and have been reflecting on these ideas a lot. I feel refreshed and inspired!!
“no matter how hard I try to hold on to something or someone, everything – including myself – is continually slipping away.” This captures my current state perfectly. 😮💨
Good luck with the new life/personhood Jess!
Oh, that's rough! I'm sorry you're feeling down, and I hope you know you're not alone. 🧡
With a son graduating from high school today, happysad is the exact feeling. It comes at so many different moments in life!
Yes congratulations, wow, high school. I’m hoping mine stay in kindergarten and daycare forever.
Congratulations! I totally understand how you're feeling, as my son graduated two years ago. It's so bittersweet! 🧡
Drea.m.r.76 I love how consistently supportive you are of folks in the community. THANK YOU.
Aw, thank you, that just made my day! It's why we're all here. 🧡
As I prepare myself and my family for a big move across the country (logistical preparations - but more so working through all the emotions), this meditation could not have come at a better or more needed time. Happysad is exactly it. Thank you Bluey.
WOW, good luck with everything! 🧡
Greetings from Jersey in the Channel Islands - i would send a picture of the sea if i could. I just wanted to say thank you for the meditation - today is a low day for me and it helped.
I'm glad Alison
Hi Jeff, and all of my friends here.
I have to say, I don’t even know where to start with my thoughts on this meditation. It may have been the most painful, powerful, and important one I’ve ever done.
To be honest, the pain started before the meditation, just reading this wisdom of your son, Jeff….”He told me he misses and loves his Babogie even though Babogie is right here.” I understood this so viscerally, it sort of seared through me. I look at my dogs every day and miss them terribly, while they are right in front of me. I look at my husband all the time and ache over our impermanence and knowing that one of us will leave the other at some point. My problem is not so much a lack of understanding of impermanence, or the awareness of it, but moreso that I am on the opposite end of the continuum. I cried the night our first dog came into our lives because I knew she would leave me some day. (I’m surprised my husband didn’t leave me that night seeing my insanity on full display. haha!)
So, the questions that came up so painfully for me during this meditation were…WHAT THE FUCK am i holding onto so f’ing tightly, and maybe even more importantly WHY??? WHERE DID I GET STUCK in the development continuum.
I understand that everything is in flux…nothing is ever the same after the microsecond in which that “snapshot” is taken….What was happening at the start of this sentence is no longer happening as I end it now. I intrinsically understand this, and have become more mindful of it as my meditation practice and learning has grown. But it feels more like a constant state of grief for me than regeneration. And that is what I need to explore.
The loving kindness bit at the end….well….that pretty much threw me off the cliff….I started spontaneously bawling….painfully….like ugly-crying…..Jeff, you asked us to consider someone or some people we love, and perhaps even consider them in their younger and older selves…..I immediately had this painful pouring in of images….my husband when we met….and then him last year, ravaged by cancer….my mother when I was a child, and now… my grandmother, no longer with us… my puppies…and then images of them turning into old dogs…..and myself….myself as a “pup”….and now….
It all hurt so much, and in fact, as i’m typing this, the tears are streaming and like, it hurts. So, there is something that needs to be explored here.
I just want to wrap by saying thank you, Jeff. Because to be honest, the release was obviously needed. And continues to be. Thank you for understanding us and for helping us understand ourselves.
Love to all,
Richard
Richard. Good crying with you brother.
I felt this so deeply Richard, thank you for sharing.
Trying desperately to see the happy amidst the sadness of this bizarre world...
Happy, but nervous system is sad. Happy to go on holiday, but sad to fly. Son leaving primary school, happy for new opportunities but sad it all gets so serious. Happy sad works perfectly for the human experience 🤗
One of the positions I hold in life is caregiving. I help those with surgery, illness, and advanced age, etc. When "my people" move on to the next adventure I am happysad. They are free of the pain and fear, me heart is sad. My husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer just over 4 years ago. We found your daily guidance as part of the treatments. Today he is thriving! Everyday is happysad. Happy to be on this beautiful journey, sad that we have to be... Thank you Jeff, for your present realness, equanimity, inspiration, grounding, and somewhat chaotic beauty - everyday you are a part of this healing journey. ❤️ Really - thank you. Mean it!
Wow Dagmar - what a note, amazing about your husband. Thank you for the work you do, I couldn't do it, despite my meditation practice
thank you for your practice 🧘🏻♀️
So beautiful. Thank you! Things could have been any way…
... but it turned out this way!
Thank you Jeff! My younger daughter is a senior in high school, in the midst of all her ‘lasts’—last prom, last variety show, last history exam. Creating a slide show of her life for her grad party has definitely been a happysad activity. Hold those little hands every chance you get! She still holds mine sometimes❤️
Hi Angie - congrats to your daughter!
An imperceptible but persistent curiosity. A sliver of space in which to float. This meditation felt like the gentle caress I was in need of.
Thank you Jeff.
beautiful
Happy sad with all of you. Merci en abondance de Bruxelles.
Thank you Jeff Warren. I have been doing your "Daily Trip" Meditations for a quite some time now and I enjoy them and always find something new and inspiring to reflect upon and to help ground me for my day ahead.🙏 I really enjoyed this one too today, especially at this time in my life. I too have small children and, they/we used to love watching Bluey too! This meditation of yours today really helped to bring me home and to stay present. 🙏🌸🙏😊
Nice to meet you Anna, good to be with the littles !
Love Bluey