Pain is something we spend a lot of time and energy avoiding.
- If we shelter ourselves enough, we think we will get through life with no pain.
- Running away does us more harm than good.
- The only true way out of pain is through it.
Many people spend so much time running from what’s difficult, shutting off our emotions, and scrambling to stay in our comfortably numb place.
- A multi-billion dollar industry is devoted to manufacturing medications that will stop our emotions for us.
- Are you feeling sad, mad, or anxious? Whatever it is, chances are there is a pill for it.
Many people live beneath their true potential, because the minute they have a feeling of discontent, they escape reality (take a pill) and re-enter the world of comfortably numb.
- Anti-depressants and elaborate defense mechanisms don’t bring happiness. They block it.
- They don’t protect you, they destroy you.
- Being numb to life is being asleep to its richness and fullness.
- The only way to know love is to know vulnerability.
- The only way to know happiness is to know sadness.
Re-source: Receptive
Human beings have evolved over thousands of years to have emotions. They exist for a reason.
- Our emotions are like an internal GPS system, guiding us out of unhappy or unhealthy situations.
- Your emotions tell you when you are on track and when you are off it.
- You listen to your gut and follow your heart.
- When you shut that part of yourself down, it becomes impossible to navigate to your true path.
craving and resource from “Unlimited” – How to build an exceptional life – by Jillian Michaels