Stop Forcing Yourself To Change. Buddhism Meets Modern Psychology: Why Flexibility > Rigidity for Mental Health

TL;DR

When life pressures mount, one often funnels into the same loops: doom-scroll → comparison → anxiety → avoidance…

And one is left one no tasks completed and the same problems repeated.

And often, willpower makes the loop tighter (forcing yourself to change) vs. mental flexibility (seeing the problem in a different way) lets you pivot.

This is the cas…