고통을 포용하기: 행복으로 가는 길

### 진정한 행복을 위한 고통 수용의 중요성
* 😔 대자연은 인간의 행복을 우선시하지 않습니다. **부정적인 감정은 환경의 위협을 경고**함으로써 생존에 필수적인 요소이기 때문입니다.
* 🧘 고대 그리스 철학자 에피쿠로스는 진정한 행복은 끊임없는 쾌락을 추구하기보다는 **삶의 고통의 근원을 제거**하는 데서 비롯된다고 믿었습니다.
* 🌍 현재 사회는 모든 형태의 고통이나 갈등으로부터 개인, 특히 어린이를 보호하는 데 중점을 두는 **'에피쿠로스적 순간'**에 놓여 있습니다.
* 🤔 하지만 모든 고통의 원인을 피함으로써 우리는 배우고 성장하는 데 도움이 되는 **부정적인 경험**도 놓치고 있습니다.
* 🌟 칼 융의 이론에 따르면 우리는 **나쁜 것을 경험했기 때문에 인생의 좋은 것을 이해**할 수 있으며, 이는 우리 삶에서 대비의 중요성을 강조합니다.
* 🌺 " 고통의 근원을 없애려고 노력함으로써 **우리는 행복의 근원을 없애고 있습니다.**"

대자연은 인간의 행복에 관심이 없으며, 고통을 피한다고 해서 진정한 행복이나 성장으로 이어지지 않을 수도 있습니다.

A huge mistake that people often make is thinking that Mother Nature cares about our happiness. Mother Nature wants us to survive and pass on our genes, to get calories and mates, and to stay safe. Not only does Mother Nature not care about our happiness, Mother Nature knows that we need to be unhappy, that we need to have lots of negative emotions. They alert us to threats in our environment. We need to feel fear when something is a threat to us. Happiness is our business. That's the true human, even perhaps the divine path of how life actually works. Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who had a very simple idea about how to be happier: He wasn't trying to have pleasure all the time. He wasn't some sort of unbridled hedonist. He just said that if I can eliminate the sources of suffering in my life, I'm gonna be a happier person. And, you know, it makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Given the fact that so much of our perceived unhappiness comes from the sources of suffering. If you can figure out a
way to avoid the sources of suffering, the relationships
that bring friction, the things that you don't like,
you'll be a happier person. It's intuitively a pretty
obvious way of living your life. That Epicurean idea of avoiding suffering has
been incredibly pervasive at different times in history. We're in an Epicurean moment. People think of the word Epicurean and they think, you know,
eating nice food and all that. But really what that means is trying to avoid the sources of suffering. And that's what we're
trying to do with our kids. We're trying more and more to keep our kids safe from
suffering and conflict. We try to protect students
from disagreements in the classroom or ideas
they might find objectionable. We're trying to protect anybody and everybody from the suffering

that is ordinarily attended upon life. And the reason is because suffering is actually part of life. And when we avoid the
sources of suffering, we're still gonna have just
as many negative emotions because that's the way that life works, and we're not gonna get
the negative experiences that help us learn and grow. So the result of it is that
the more epicurean that we are, the weaker that we grow up. Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychoanalyst, he talked about the fact that
we only know what good is because we see bad. We need contrast in our lives to actually experience the
beautiful things in life. And this is paradoxically
what we're denying so many people today. By trying to get rid of
their sources of suffering, we're getting rid of
their sources of bliss.

Why your Epicurean approach will never make you truly happy | Arthur Brooks

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부정적인 감정은 위협에 대한 경고 시스템으로 작용하기 때문에 대자연의 우선순위는 행복이 아니라 생존과 번식입니다.

행복은 우리 자신의 책임이며, 철학자 에피쿠로스에 따르면 고통의 원인을 제거하는 것이 더 행복한 삶을 위한 열쇠입니다.

고통을 피하기 위한 미식가들의 아이디어

행복을 늘리기 위해 고통을 피해야 한다는 개념은 현재 널리 퍼져 있습니다.

이 개념은 고통을 최소화하기 위해 모든 형태의 갈등이나 의견 불일치로부터 어린이와 학생을 보호하는 데까지 확장됩니다.

에피쿠로스 철학에 대한 현대적 해석은 삶의 모든 측면에서 고통의 원인을 피하는 데 초점을 맞추고 있습니다.

고통을 삶의 자연스러운 일부로 받아들이기

고통은 삶에 내재된 것이기 때문에 고통을 피한다고 해서 부정적인 감정이 줄어들지는 않습니다.

칼 융이 말한 것처럼 고통과 기쁨의 대조는 삶의 아름다움을 경험하는 데 필수적입니다.

고통을 부정하거나 없애는 것은 성장과 행복의 기회를 놓치는 것을 의미하기도 합니다.