Introduction: For thousands of years, humanity has misunderstood pain.We once thought fevers were signs of sin.We believed earthquakes were divine punishments.We fasted, prayed, repented, and endured.Then came medicine. Science. Cause and effect. Healing. But in one domain, the ancient error still survives:Emotional pain. We are still told that if we feel sad, broken, or numb … Continue reading Emotional Pain Is Not a Moral Test: A New Science of Healing
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Emotional Science: A New and Necessary Field in Human Medicine
Introduction: For centuries, humanity has misunderstood the nature of emotional suffering. Depression, anxiety, grief, despair—these have all been lumped under the vague and often misleading term “mental illness,” as if they are disorders of thought, logic, or cognition. But they are not. Emotional states are not delusions. Emotional pain is not a thought error. Emotional … Continue reading Emotional Science: A New and Necessary Field in Human Medicine
Existence Is NOT Suffering: The Truth About Life
Introduction For thousands of years, many traditions—especially within certain spiritual and religious systems—have claimed that existence is inherently suffering. This idea, often repeated in slogans such as “Life is pain” or “Existence is suffering”, has shaped countless minds and lives, becoming a cornerstone of some philosophies and spiritual practices. But is it actually true? This … Continue reading Existence Is NOT Suffering: The Truth About Life
Comforting Thoughts on Death
Death terrifies because it confronts us with the unknown. Will we cease entirely, dissolve into nothing? Will we recycle into new forms, or step into a world beyond this one? The mind cannot map it, and so it trembles. Yet there are reasons for comfort. In nature, nothing is lost. Matter decays but becomes soil; … Continue reading Comforting Thoughts on Death
A Choice of Soil: How A Person Becomes Good Or Evil
Every human life, at its root, is lived in one of two soils. These are not mere habits, nor passing moods, but fundamental stances toward existence: the soil of good, and the soil of evil. Upon this choice rests everything. From this ground, each life grows into its specific form—some into towering oaks of virtue, … Continue reading A Choice of Soil: How A Person Becomes Good Or Evil
The External Is A Shell – Focus on the Internal
Whether we are talking about relationships, or effectiveness in therapy, or true happiness. The thing you must remember is that the external: beauty, muscles, body, money, material wealth, and so on - is all a shell. The shell might look good, but the real important thing we must know is what the fuck is inside … Continue reading The External Is A Shell – Focus on the Internal
Listen Carefully: Don’t Expect Fire to Be Cold, or Ice to Be Warm. When someone shows you who they are, that’s who they are. No you can’t change them. Find what actually fits for you.
Just focus on being a good person. Being Good is Success.
You are not your feelings.
Separate emotion from identity. You are not your feelings . You can feel sad or anxious. But it doesn't mean you are a sad person or anxious person. You are you. Your feelings are yours. There is a important difference. You can feel them but you get to decide who you are and what you … Continue reading You are not your feelings.
Sometimes we don’t need formal learning, just need to listen to the quiet voice inside.
Some of the happiest, best people in the world have no formal understanding of complex history, philosophy or psychology. The instincts bestowed on us by nature and God are enough to live a full, happy, good life. And in fact often an education in the sciences and humanities can do more to push us away … Continue reading Sometimes we don’t need formal learning, just need to listen to the quiet voice inside.
