I want to master pain and pleasure.

I want to master pain and pleasure; happiness and sorrow. I want a direct control of my emotions. The same way I can control my muscle movements; like my breathing.

If that's not a possibility, then alternatively, I desire constant happiness or freedom from painful emotions/distress/worry.

Ideally, I want to get rid of negative emotions completely.

How can one achieve this?

Additional Information:

Emotional experience is a ubiquitous component of the stream of consciousness. The emotions motivating the direction of conscious attention, partly constitutive of 'what it's like' to experience anything. But all phenomenal consciousness must be emotionally motivated; thus the 'what it's like' aspect of a phenomenal experience is inseparable from the emotions that permeate it. E.g., visual cortex activation is unconscious of red unless the emotional midbrain, limbic system, and anterior cingulate motivatedly "look for" a red object.

Your experience of so-called reality is filtered through your memories, giving your experience a spin, adding meaning. We’re constantly resonating with what we already know to be true. Everything that you feel is filtered along a gradient of past experience and memory that’s stored in your receptors. What you experience as reality is your story of what happened.

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Comments ( 5 )
  • gizmoid

    You can build up a tolerance for pain and you can become jaded by pleasures, but we're programmed to have an adversion to pain and seek pleasure. Accepting pain is not the same as suffering. Live in the moment, don't obsessed on painful experiences or memories, create a place in your heart that harbors the things in life that get you high and maintain it as your place of refuge when the world is a hard, dark place.

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  • EccentricWeird

    Fucking Tai Chi master, go back to the dojo, you are enlightened.

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  • jucedaguy

    Pain triggers yummy endorphins...

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    • I mean grief, sadness, suffering, melancholy, anxiety, fear and other emotional distress, not the physical sensation of pain.

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  • gargamel

    Mastering pain and pleasure is impossible. After all we were designed to experience them. Why would you want to master them? Life sucks without pain and pleasure.

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