Eckhart Tolle suggests unhappiness may need resistance to survive. He proposes an experiment: stop fighting your unhappiness and fully accept it instead. Some people report feeling better this way, though results vary.
I'm unhappy. I don't mind being unhappy. It's fine. I'm unhappy. So let me be unhappy. That sounds really weird. So let me be unhappy. I don't mind. I'm just unhappy. Now the question is, can the unhappiness survive in a state of complete surrender, or does the unhappiness, in order to survive, needs resistance? There's something wrong with me. There's something wrong with life. There's something wrong somewhere. You need some resistance, and if you. I don't mind being unhappy. I'm just assessing it as an experiment. It works. I've had feedback from people. For some people, it actually works very well, and for others it doesn't.
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