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2393: How to Keep Emotions From Running Your Life by David Cain

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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How to Live a Life Free of Your Least Favored Emotions

Most barriers in our personal lives come from the absurd of trying to never feel certain totally normal, inevitable human feelings. Our insistence on complete safety from certain undesirable emotions only makes them more de stabilizing when they do happen. An unpleasant feeling tends to lose its venom shortly after you decide you don't need to avoid it. It doesn't stick around long once it has nothing to fight for. This is why i will advocate meditation until the day i die.

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