Mental activity is a useful distraction from mental and emotional pain. If you find pleasure in thinking, and knowledge produces awareness of suffering, this can be a vicious feedback. Distract yourself w/ small pleasures and temporary certainty on occasion.
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It can be other things but in order for your thinking to not enter a feedback I’ve found it’s easiest when in the presence of others (can’t stop thinking by yourself) and submitting your thinking to the topics of conversation.
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Additionally, it can be meditation or prayer, and this is available to everyone at any time. This should be done regardless, but I also would not consider it as easy on your mind as orderly distractions. But it seems to have longer term benefits.
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And then there is art. I’m not sure if art relieves suffering but it can allow you to express it and perhaps transcend it in some way. It can even be a gratuitous over indulgence in pain in an attempt to overcome it.
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