[INTJAquarian]

Originally Posted by The Cloud

Now, for number 2, my main assertion is that emotional pain and physical pain are the same thing. They are just there to tell us when something is wrong. Physical pain tells us that something may be wrong with our body. Emotional pain tells us that something may be wrong with our perspective or our actions. You are not the things you feel. If you physically feel something bad, you don't think that you are a bad person for that. Yet if you feel emotionally bad, like angry, then you feel that you are your emotion and therefore you are bad. This is just another falsehood. Being angry doesn't make you a bad person. Being angry just tells you one thing; you need to change your perspective to feel differently. The anger tells you that you're looking at things in a way that contradicts the reality of your situation, that there is a metaphysical nail in your foot. Alter your perception, and you no longer have to be angry.

I think this is brilliant...thank you for this.