Our natural tendency is to freeze the happy moments of our lives and keep revisiting them, often to get away from the unhappy ones. We forget that those have been experienced already but the unhappy ones have not found acceptance and peace within us. It is a subtle form of denial!
Recovery happens with both types
of experiences, by learning to repeat the behavioural patterns which brought in
happiness and by not repeating the behaviour that resulted in unhappiness.
But, like Duryodhana who told
Krishna that he knew what was right but didn’t feel like doing it, we also know
what we should be doing, but still continue with actions which definitely must
bring in only unhappiness and suffering.
Again, the human brain understands
this perfectly. It is just not accompanied by wisdom.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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