We all say we want to be happy. That seems obvious. Of course we want to feel good. Of course we want more peace, more enjoyment, and more relief. But if we really stop and look at it, many of us don’t actually feel better the harder we try to be happy. In some ways, the pursuit of happiness itself can start to work against us. In fact, we often feel worse. Because the issue might not be that we’re doing something wrong. It might be that the way we’ve been taught to think ab