Embrace not liking things

Not liking something doesn’t mean that it’s wrong or that you’re wrong for not liking it. It’s just a feeling that is coming and going, and just because we feel it, doesn’t mean it’s true. Yet, we often treat our feelings like an emergency: I don’t like this, so I must fix it now. The humorous thing, however, is that as much as we want to change the thing, we usually don’t like the feeling of expending the energy it would take to change it either. So we feel stressed and stuck between what we don’t like and the effort we don’t want to make.

All of this to say that, no matter what, we must learn to not like things if we want to experience happiness. This is not a form of resignation; it is a pathway to freedom. When you make peace with the feeling of dislike, you regain your power, which is your freedom to choose where you spend your precious energy —either in resistance or transformation.

Where is it time to make friend with the sensations of dislike?