Pain Won’t Last Forever

Emotional pain intensifies when we resist it:

• Suffering = pain × resistance
• Allowing feelings creates space for healing
• The present moment can hold even deep sadness
• Stillness dissolves pain more than distraction does

In fact, the happier you are, the more productive you will become. According to psychologist and happiness researcher Shawn Achor, who wrote the bestselling book The Happiness Advantage, when your brain is happier, it “performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral, or stressed. ...

• Perhaps wisdom and happiness are like winning a medal in the Olympics. It doesn't matter whether you won just once or in multiple events, a hundred years before or just now and it doesn't matter whether you never compete again. You'll always be a medalist, and you'll always know what it feel...