Meditation is useful in transforming the afflictive emotion of anger into the virtue of patience.
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His was no official common-place about afflictive dispensations.
From the theatlantic.com
Here we see the god power afflictive despair and what happening here is I'm going to your island and flicking off a muddling.
From the techcrunch.com
We tend to identify completely with the stories we repeat to ourselves and others and create afflictive mental and emotional states that bring much suffering into our lives.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
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Causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"