“Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.” ~ Dalai Lama “Pain is mandatory suffering is optional” is often quoted, and it sounds reasonable, but how is that so? How is it lived? Pain, like physical bodily pain, is part of life. Emotional suffering, for psychological “reasons” or in addition to physical pain, is a practice, a habit that can be changed. These are the mechanics of how pain is mandatory suffering is optional. Suffering is something done habitually, something that has been handed-down, inherited through the ignorance of simply not knowing anything else to do. It had become so deeply ingrained as to become beliefs, or worse, part of your identity (also a belief). You know it’s gone this far when …
Be Happy for No Reason
Be Happy for No Reason You don’t need a reason to be happy—and even with a “reason” to be unhappy, you can be happy! by C. Teevens I was driving down the road, and the thought, the memory, that a client owes me a lot of money came to mind. Then some negative feeling tried to bubble-up. When The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ came to me May 2009, I was compelled to drop everything else and only do this, and when I did so, my income dropped as well. My life turned-on-a-dime. So I could really “justify” the anxiety and fear that tried to arise, and the frustration and anger that could have also followed. But instead, I began …
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