Stop Buffering

Buffering is whatever activity we do to try to escape from, or cope from, or hide from what’s really going on in our lives and from what we’re feeling.

It’s a distraction from having to deal with our emotions, especially the ones we don’t like feeling.

As humans, we don’t like to feel uncomfortable.

So when we experience an intense or a negative emotion that doesn’t feel good, it’s normal for us to want to escape it or to cushion the impact of it, to buffer it away, to protect ourselves.

As humans we feel entitled to feel good and pleasure and sunshine and daisies all of the time.

This is what the world teaches us.

But these things don’t truly make us happy.

They’re just a temporary distraction, with a negative consequence on the backside

But here’s what we’re forgetting:

We’re forgetting that these buffers will not fix our problem. The original problem will still be there but now we’ve just added another problem on top of it.

We’re forgetting that there is nothing wrong with feeling a negative emotion.

Life is not supposed to feel good and happy all the time.

If we want to feel Joy in our life and grow and progress fully as human beings, we have to be willing to experience the entire human package.

We have to be willing to experience both positive and negative emotions.

What would life be like if you stopped buffering?

Listen in as I share the answer to this as well as some ways to stop.

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