My friend and fabulous healer, Julia, recently suggested that the path from suffering to joy has three phases. In the first phase, we suffer and suffer about our suffering. We hate it, pure and simple. We want liberation from it. If it continues, we begin to feel a certain "rightness" to the suffering. We feel like it's a correct response to a certain kind of situation. Finally, we lose interest in our own suffering. We get tired of it and move onto joy. It becomes right not to choose suffering and embrace the truth of our joy instead.
