EMYLEE

Pain, even the chronic variety is subjective and can be annulled.
There are no specific receptive areas for different emotions like fear, joy, and anger. By contrast, certain receptors are activated when experiencing pain or pleasure, yet even those are subjective....

Finding ways to laugh at challenges, stressful situations, and even personal tragedy is one way resilient people cope and grow through misfortune.

Being able to laugh at challenges provides distance and perspective, but does so without denying pain or fear.

• Kanheman: we're all trying to create a positive narrative of our life story
• Identity protective cognition
• With the pain / loss, our identity gets attacked if we attribute it to our poor decision making
• So instead, we attribute it to luck