If I could do one thing for you, I would increase your pain threshold. Our tolerance for the pain of life is the single most important thing about us. Increasing that gives us more latitude, flexibility, working room in dealing with the day's deliveries. The way we take what comes determines the response we make to our life, and sets the tone for our manner, deportment, posture, attitude, spirit, resiliency, pleasantness, openness, kindness, dependability and good humor that exhibits who we are to the world. If we can handle the pain of life, its disappointments, heartbreaks, and turns for the worse, we can help other people handle theirs, and be in their lives, and in the life of the world, "the kind of help that help is all about" (Shel Silverstein). And that will make all the difference. If I could do two things for you the second would be increasing your level of mindful awareness with which you walk through each day. The two things are the same thing. If you haven't watched all of the Jon Kabat-Zinn YouTube videos on Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR)-- the shortest ones first-- Why not?
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