Managing Negative Emotions
The cluster focuses on debates and advice about coping with suffering, negative mindsets, and emotional energy, including acceptance of reality, mindset shifts like stoicism or Buddhism, and avoiding rumination on unchangeable things.
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Not wallowing in negative emotions can be a struggle.
Stop thinking about thing that you can't change
You seem like you're in a rough and bitter mindset. You may actually benefit from tracking happiness or perhaps some other outlet.
You didn't answer the question: what is so horrible about trying to help oneself by tempering one's emotions and seeking happiness within?
You're making a lot of incorrect assumptions about my worldview, and I don't appreciate it.No matter how grounded one's perspective is, each person has a finite amount of emotional energy to spend at a given time. This is a universal truth. Articles like this one can trash one's energy reserves - causing distress - without introducing any meaningful new information or perspective whatsoever. It's simply a bad cost/benefit ratio. I didn't learn any new hard t
I'm fascinated by the amount of need to undermine human suffering by more human suffering. Hey, a good tip for you: it's all bad.
That's fair enough for you to think like that.I see something totally different. I frequently discover new things that help me and make some part of my life better, easier, anything positive. And I see many people around me experiencing the same.For that reason, I don't see the world you see.I might be wrong. You might be wrong. Maybe both of us are partly wrong. Anyways, this mindset has helped me further in life and accomplish things I previously found impossible. For now, I
Changing my perspective from "I wish I didn't have these thoughts/feelings" to "how can I deal with these thoughts/feelings productively" was a game changer for me.
Why lose your mind over something you cannot change?
I have a feeling the hedonic treadmill is to blame.