peace of heart

why do you need to feel you are better than others in any way in order to feel better about yourself? 

It surely is something we have inherited since being monkeys. Being the strong and powerful one in your group makes you feel happy. It is a signal that is supposed to tell you: "this is the right way, you are more likely to survive and pass on your genes if you feel well while getting over others and painful when you get under them. 

But the interesting thing about humans is that they can decide to not reproduce and they can decide to avoid the sad feeling that might come of it. Humans can also rationalize which is probably the thing I'm doing now, but isn't there 

also another way to get over the negative feelings and thoughts?

I'm sure there is and the thing is we are just bunch of cells but the real thing is going on simultaneously. Outside of form and at the same time inside of it, that's human life. When you give up control you might suddenly feel like you've took off a backpack full of stones and just gently flow with the river. You let the flow guide you and you suddenly become the flow. 

You find out the reality of not being just your body or feelings but an organism that works in an astonishing cooperation with it's inner cells, inner light, the love pouring out of your heart and the air entering your lungs.