“While pain might be inevitable,
the suffering that comes from the pain is not.
Suffering is not a state of life, it is a state of mind.
Suffering is your response to an event.
Whether you suffer or not depends
entirely on your reaction to that situation."
Paramahamsa Nithyananda
http://thinksimplenow.com
This realisation is so powerful. This is not about denying your pain, not accepting your feelings or trying to push them away.
Rather it's about understanding that you are mastering your thoughts and your thoughts will create your feelings.
Often when something bad happens we make it worse by thinking that we should feel bad because, wait.. this is a bad situation, everyone would feel bad... But while the situation is there, your reaction is up to you. There's no written rule about how you are supposed to feel. Maybe you suffer more in situations others handle easier and react to what seem terrible traumas to others in a better way.
But remember, nothing is good or bad, a situation is just what it is, we judge it in our minds and based on that judgement our feelings follow. It's not the situation that causes your feelings, it's your thoughts about it.
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