iRRITATED...NEXT TIME BITE YOUR TONGEUE == DETACHMENT

1. :PSYCHOLOGY - Faced with an individual or a situation that irritates us, some personal development authors advocate detachment. At the risk of stifling emotion in a counterproductive way...

   After a summer vacation ruined by your noisy neighbors, you had to digest the return to work with your irritating colleagues. And now the end-of-year holidays are looming and, with them, joyful prospects... and other more unpleasant ones. Many fear having to endure, once again, the painful reflections of a parent or the condescending tone of a cousin. How to live this moment without plunging into annoyance or conflict? “ Sometimes all it takes is a stimulus, a small remark, for negative representations to resurface. From then on, an obsessive idea takes over : “ What am I doing here, why did I come ? ” , describes Stéphane Rusinek, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Lille Nord-de-France and author of the book Emotions (2020).

   What if the solution was found in the books of wisdom that invite us to detachment? After all, the Christian religion has been advocating for two millennia…
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