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Welcome to Feel Better Live More bite size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend.

Today's clip is from episode 387 of the podcast with Jelong Tupton, Buddhist monk,

Meditation Teacher, and author of a Handbook for Hard Times, a monk's guide to fearless living.

In this clip, he explains that when we distract ourselves with low-grade addictions, we're

pushing away emotional pain or discomfort.

But if we can learn instead to sit with what's making us uncomfortable, those emotions will start to transform.

If I look across society, what I see are a lot of people with low-grade addictions, things like

alcohol, social media, pornography, online shopping.

And it seems to me that the root cause of a lot of these addictions is distraction.

You make the case that distraction or the pushing away of our feelings, of pain, of discomfort, is actually the cause of many of our problems.

Do you agree that we are a society that seems to be addicted to distraction?

And if you do, what's the underlying cause?

I think we're definitely addicted to distraction. and of course the way we use technology has

really fed into that.

I went away into a four-year-long retreat in 2005, and when I came out of that retreat in 2009,

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