Overcoming Pain

Only one sentence to summarize this episode: when you are experiencing pain, you are growing. The host compares this when we workout. We feel pain in our muscles after we workout because the muscle fibers break and eventually grow. Same as when we experience pain in life. We grow and learn the mo...

When you react to it, that's when it transforms into suffering.

You can learn to experience pain neutrally is through meditation: it teaches you to accept pain, sit with it and then move on, instead of reacting to it with stress.

• When that pleasure-pain balance tilts to the side of pain after the experience of pleasure, we experience feelings of discomfort, restlessness and irritability which can leave us unhappy and wanting to recreate the feeling of pleasure.

• ANY type of addiction makes us mal...