Your mind can be a torture chamber.

Instead of learning to cope with things that disturb us, we often magnify and amplify them, intensifying our pain.

Michael Singer, the author of, “The Untethered Soul”, has two great analogies for how we do this. In the first the imagines someone having a thorn in their side. It’s partly an allusion to Saint Paul – who described his personal pain and torment in this way.

Some see his thorn as literal. I prefer it to see it as metaphorical – but whatever, Singer imagines a person failing to deal with the thorn at source…