What are some societal obstacles to happiness?

What are some societal obstacles to happiness?

Lynn Ianni (Psychotherapist) gives expert video advice on: Can a person learn to be happier?; What are some practical steps I can take to become happier?; What are some exercises that can be used to break unhappy patterns? and more...

Often we are, especially in our culture and our society, are human doings instead of human beings. We don't take much time to slow down, to figure out how we feel, to ask ourselves what we need to do to take care of ourselves better or to create joy either for ourselves, people around us, to be loving. And we don't pay attention to what we are saying in our heads that involves self criticism or scares us. So we don't really notice on an internal level how we are impacting our own experience of the world. And when we are really busy, we pay even less attention to ourselves. So the more we slow down, the more you can take a moment to be and check in, the more you can create what it is that you are actually trying to find outside.