Good bad and bad bad

We use the word “bad” too broadly. What if we took the time to consider there is a good bad and a bad bad when it comes to our feelings and sensations?

We need a healthy dose of the good bad to grow. This is the experience of knowing something is good for us even when we feel resistant or it feels wildly uncomfortable. We can embrace this feeling by knowing the outcome will be good.

We don’t need to create any more bad bad in our lives. Pain and suffering are different than resistance and discomfort. The bad type of bad experience is the one where we deeply know something is harmful to us, someone else, or the world, yet we feel trapped in doing it anyway, so we do it. Some of us even get stuck in the bad type of bad because we feel like we aren’t strong enough to endure the good and bad, yet here we are putting up with so much pain.

What might happen if you take the energy you put into suffering and instead channel it into the discomfort that comes from the good type of feeling bad?