Suffering is a state that we cannot avoid in our life. Everyone experiences suffering. No matter who you are–you are not given an exception on your identities, political affiliation, age, or income–you will suffer in this lifetime.
There should be physical pain, mental anguish, psychological torment, and excruciating emotional turmoil that can be felt as the result of the suffering.
Suffering does not discriminate against anyone in this world. Even if we are envious of the most successful people in the world, understand, they too have suffered.
The richest and most successful people suffer. The poorest and least conventionally successful individuals are suffering.
And unfortunately, most people have no idea how they create their own suffering.
Why do we have to suffer? Why our happiness is so limited? The only reason is that we are always stuck in the painful realities of life.
According to psychology broadly, suffering is related to the individual. It is the result of a person’s tendencies, conditioning, patterns of thinking, and behaviors.
Therefore, the goal of psychology is to help the individual understand and correct these thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to more adaptive mechanisms. The more that you continue refining these aspects and engaging in the psychological process of therapy, the better adapted and healthier you become.
This idea should bring us not to cling to the darkest hours of life. We are responsible for our level of suffering and happiness. Each of the emotions has enough its own levels.
We have to move a little more with our thought. Rather than staying stuck in the realm of mind and modifying patterns, there must be something that moves beyond the individual and into a greater process.
Suffering is not a sign that you need to do more. That you need to work harder. That you need to pursue happiness through prayer, and meditation.
Suffering is a sign that you need to acquire more eternal bliss.
Let your suffering for moving you to re-orient your approach to the game of life. It should push you to something larger and greater than yourself. Something that transcends yourself. Something that gives you awe, silence, and peace. So take your suffering for a better chance to be stronger.