Brad Stulberg
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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the more free we become, because we don't resist the bad.
And this is the that I learned in my OCD therapy, because if you try to resist something, it just gets stronger.
Whereas if you can say like, oh, there's sadness,
Sadness is here.
Sadness hurts.
It's okay to be sad.
Then it takes the edge off the sadness.
And when you experience happiness, you're not scared to be happy.
You can fully experience happiness.
So it's this ability to be flexible within the course of a year, a week, a day, even within the course of an hour, to be able to have a wave of sadness, let it course through you, feel it, and then be really happy.
There's this story that I came across that didn't make it into the book when researching about the Dalai Lama.
And just I think that this exemplifies emotional flexibility is genocide came up in a conversation with him and he just started weeping.
just weeping, like crying full force tears of sadness and sorrow.
And then they were brought cookies by his attendant.
And he took a bite of a chocolate chip cookie and the biggest smile came on his face.
And within the course of a couple seconds, so being able to hold it all, like the despair and the sorrow of genocide and the joy of a freshly baked cookie,
And just to create enough space for all that, that is another capacity of wisdom.
I'm not there yet.
I intellectually know enough about it to write about it.
So much of my own practice of groundedness is this notion of emotional flexibility of being able to hold everything at once so that I don't get pushed and pulled around by it.
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