So here's an oddly brutal exercise I find very useful... Imagine you're laying in bed one night asleep and a sharp pain wakes you. You are visited by a thought or a being that lets you know, without the slightest doubt, that you will be dead by morning and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it. At first you fight it and panic, [...]

The Proper care of wounds.

You can make yourself eat peas, but can you make yourself like them?

What do we use as a guide when all our choices seem to have a pretty big downside? Sometimes it's like that. We've gotten ourselves in some pickle, or life has provided a pickle, from which there seems no escape without pain, pain for us or pain for others. Mostly, we spin our wheels searching for that elusive pain free path, the one that magically solves [...]