The Art Of Not Embittering Life, Recommended Reading

One of the recommended readings for mental health is Rafael Santandreu’s book, The art of not making life bitter. It exposes the idea that emotions are born from thoughts, which can cause our thinking to make us feel bad.

From a rational point of view, Santandreu makes us reflect on the harmful situations in which we usually fall. We suffer with other people’s circumstances, but above all, we suffer with ourselves, enclosing ourselves within the four walls of our cognitive process.

Aspiring to happiness is an increasingly difficult goal to achieve and we have the power to overcome most of the barriers that appear along the way.

We impose more and more needs, more duties, more demands on ourselves, and what we get is to be more and more depressed, more anxious and more dependent.

Mental health is a good that the author makes us value, giving it the importance it has, and learning to place each problem or difficulty in its corresponding place.

In this way, the most advisable thing is that the imaginary measurement line of the problems has its central positions occupied, and not the extremes. Thus, we will be more balanced and objective people with ourselves.

Rafael Santandreu, the author

In one of his interviews, Rafael Santandreu explains that people sometimes get into loops of wrong thoughts that are what really make their lives bitter .

For example, when we say of a person, “It gets on my nerves,” we are expressing a wrong idea. The process is probably the following: that person does something for a reason X, we classify it as intolerable and then we get on our nerves.

Therefore, what happens to us does not affect us as much as what we think happens to us in response to something. All this, of course, in an unconscious way.

We recommend reading The art of not making life bitter , because it is a healthy reading that will help us learn about ourselves. It teaches us how to value positively what we can do versus what we cannot do.