Learning to swim

Health and Recovery
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The teacher I follow says the art of happiness is the art of suffering well. For years I thought I knew what it meant but it’s only recently that things have been calm and stable enough for me to practice suffering well.

Today was a good day but I feel sad due to a few things that happened later in the day. On top of those events I got literally nothing done and I feel a bit lazy :sloth:. Anyways ..with how my brain is …I feel these emotions really strongly. But the thing is …if you don’t push it away and you actually embrace the challenge of feeling negative feelings they lesson and become easier to deal with. This is what the teacher taught me and it works under mild conditions …

Wishing to be happier is important…but Im staring to see that being able to handle and embrace suffering is actually important like the teacher said. Transformation not suppression!!!

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Swimming is nice

I would like to learn swimming too

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My belief is to channel ones suffering into constant reminder and motivation to seek out unrelenting vengeance against anyone who may have caused it.

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I swim.Was in first theme.I failed two times learning on courses of month ..

Then I gave my best of me,and soon I swam 4km a day.Series of 800m five times in two hours.

The most important thing about swimming is style ..

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Nice you have started to endure hardships.

Thanks for sharing what teacher taught you. I also learned that by becoming a giver is happier than becoming a receiver.

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That a great quote…from the :smiling_face_with_horns: lol

Nobody piss @Schizbro off :joy::melting_face:

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I don’t know what to make of what you said but I’m going to think about it

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How we suffer is as important as seeking happy. The way I understood it was that because suffering is inevitable we have to learn the best ways to handle it so it’s not overwhelming and debilitating.

Mindfulness and transformation is better than autopilot and suppression/running from suffering

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What is mindfulness?

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I’m surprised you don’t know what mindfulness is. Its about being consciously aware with attention on what is actually happening in the moment.

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I don’t know if it would work with deep deep suffering but I’ve got it working with small suffering. The thing the guy teaches is that when you aren’t mindful suffering seems much bigger than it actually is.

I’ve experienced that in my real life. Some of the things I thought were soo big and important seems from a healthy perspective are tiny troubles man…

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I don’t believe in mindfulness, I looked it up and I compared it to my psychological profile and it said that I should stay the way I am if I feel that it’s right. And I do.

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Well the whole idea of mindfulness is to improve your life and others . If you are already good and ok with how you are then stay that way lol

I’m not sure but from how I understand it .. mindfulness is a vehicle not a destination

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