Any attempt to escape the negative, only backfires

1. The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. 
2. When you care less about something, you do better at it. 
3. Avoidance of the suffering is a form of sufferin...

• The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paraparadoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
• The more you desperately want to be sexy and desired, the uglier you come to see yourself, regardless of your ...

As a species we have an in-built ‘negativity bias': a propensity to remember, cling to, and learn from negative experiences more readily than positive ones, according to neurology research.

It made sense that our earliest ancestors should be risk averse, but nowadays t...