Five ways to avoid mental pain and suffering
Do you experience mental pain and suffering from time to time? Most of us have those unpleasant experiences far more often than we’d like, so we search for a way to get rid of them. Here are several possible approaches. First, we can try to suppress them. If we aren’t aware of them, they can’t hurt us. We aren’t necessarily consciously aware of shutting down and numbing ourselves to our internal state, but doing this is a common approach to stopping our experience of unpleasant feelings. Unfortunately, no matter how hard we try, it is very difficult to suppress pain [...]
