5. Pain and Suffering - Part 1 Welcome back to the mindfulness or everyday life workshop. In this episode, I'm going to discuss the concept of suffering and the chain of habitual reactivity. So as we go about attempting to live more mindfully in our everyday lives, it's important to be mindful of our instances of suffering. There are moments in our lives. [00:00:34] Where we experienced tremendous discomfort with how things are, and this is a topic that's very prevalent in mindfulness traditions, but it's important to understand what is suffering suffering is what arises when we want things to be other than how they are now from the mindfulness perspective, any time that we're experiencing an instance of wanting something to be other than how it is we're experiencing suffering. [00:01:03] Now we do use the word suffering for other things. And sometimes it gets attached to other notions like pain, like discomfort, like anguish, but from the perspective of mindfulness as a pract...