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Why emotional pain triggers mental activity while physical pain doesn't

I can sit with physical pain during meditation but when emotional pain arises I immediately start planning ways to fix my life or analyzing what is wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind has learned to treat emotional discomfort as a problem to solve rather than an experience to meet with presence.

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