A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD (uploaded June 4, 2024) using a ‘splinter’ analogy: he compares emotional/psychological hurts to a physical splinter — small but causing local inflammation and pain — and argues that removing such harmful elements from one’s life yields fast, significant relief and improved happiness.
And I like that splinter analogy because everyone has probably had a splinter at some point in their life where they have a little thing put in their finger and it hurts. After a while, if that splinter doesn't come out, it starts festering and starts getting inflamed. And you see how much pain it causes just at that little local level in your finger and how much relief you get once you get the splinter out. It's almost immediate effect. So just magnify that with whatever you have inside of you. And your body is treating it the same way, right?
