Originally posted by Wonderer
Everyone, please feel free to add to the list below.

The following are things/thoughts that really make me feel better when I feel unhappy:

1. When you experience any emotion that makes you feel discomfort or intense suffering of any kind, say the following to yourself: "This is what suffering feels like. May all other living beings be without suffering while I'm suffering.

2. Other people are suffering more than I do at this very moment, I must have compassion for them.

3. I must not take myself this serious. I have no self, but I'm intimately connected to everything else in the universe.

Please share your thoughts and add to the list.

As one of you said, acceptance and forgiveness i suppose. You'd practically hurt yourself by wanting to change something that can't possibly change, like the death of a loved one, how other people think, certain defects which you may have, or whatever.
However, for me, this is mostly theoretical 😬