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books about overcoming your emotions?
I feel like whenever I feel emotions like boredom or sadness I become distressed because I'm not feeling happy, and I should be feeling happy all the time. How do I stop feeling this way?
Basically I want something to teach me how to be ok with these emotions and not feel distressed when I feel them. I know you cant eliminate these emotions, I just want to feel like I can live with them.

>> No.17453356

>>17453323
Dao De Jing

>> No.17453390

>>17453323
>>>/adv/

>> No.17453666

>>17453390
They do not have the answer.

>> No.17453825

>>17453323
Read some stoic shit idk man, you'd do better by getting /fit/: diet, sleep, exercise, friends.

Sounds like you are emotionally developmentally stunted and need to engage in reality which means cutting down your rick and marty cartoons and social media/vidya. Books will not help you here so much.

>> No.17453843

>>17453825
This. I'd also suggest that book about meditation that gets thrown around a lot here. The days that I meditate I'm really able to stop giving a shit about how I feel and just do things that need to be done.

Also OP I want you to meditate on the idea that happiness is actually just a memory. Have you ever "felt" happy? Been aware of being in that state? I know I haven't. But I've reflected on past events and found myself to have been happy. Strange, but it has helped me stop chasing 'happiness' in a diseased and awful world.