Welcome your joys and sorrows...

It is our "resistance" to unwanted emotions, feelings, and situations that usually amplifies and prolongs pain.  Resistance leaves us drained and stuck, so as the great poet Rumi instructs: we should do our best to try to welcome them all.  Each experience has a place in our lives, even if only to serve as a reminder of what we do not want.  One truth of life is that the light (our happiness and joys) can only be known against the darkness (our pain and trials).