Hal ElrodCreator of The Miracle Morning, Personal & Professional Success Coach

Transforming Pain Into Growth

18 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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This YouTube excerpt (Hal Elrod) argues that mental anguish, inner turmoil, and emotional pain arise from resisting reality—wishing uncontrollable things were different. Elrod emphasizes that blaming external people or events is common but ultimately the level of resistance we hold determines our suffering; accepting what cannot be changed reduces emotional pain.

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All of our mental anguish, inner turmoil, and emotional pain is resisting our reality. In other words, it's wishing that things that are out of your control were different, that if they can't be changed by you, it's delusional to wish that they were different. And the more that we resist our reality and wish it were different to the degree that we resist, it determines the degree of mental and emotional pain that we create for ourselves. Yet we always have someone or something to point at and to blame. Of course I'm upset. Look at what happened to me. Of course I'm angry. Listen to what she said. Of course I'm scared. Look at what may or may not happen in the future. We always have someone or something to point at, but ultimately it comes back to us.