Daily Life Lessons

[Grant6]

Suffering is ok.

I think that this is one of the keys to emotional mastery. I have been getting better at letting myself feel and be in "negative" emotions without trying to get rid of them or feel better. I would catch myself at moments wanting to feel differently, to feel happier or just feel less sad or confused, but then I realized something. Why is one way of feeling better than another? It's not, in the ultimate sense. I just have a preference for certain emotions because I am biased. So instead of trying to change "negative" emotions, I have been allowing them to just be, and I find that sometimes it stays for a while, sometimes I spontaneously release the emotion and I move into more "productive" emotions from there, but no matter how long it takes, it always passes.