How To Deal Differently…
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
It's natural that none of us want the experiences of suffering in our lives. Why would anyone want pain, loss or disappointment? And yet, it happens to everyone.
What's also natural is our response to it. The impulse is to avoid anything difficult and unpleasant. Look away. Move away. Reject it all.
The pain and unpleasantness is not an option at all, unfortunately. But the way you handle your aversion to it all is. Instead of constant rejection of all that not pleasant, could there be a way to possibly embrace it?
What if you didn't entertain aversion? What might happen?
~NY Muse