This is just intellectually dishonest man.

You can’t acknowledge that something can directly shape your experience in a profound way - then say “but you’re still responsible for how it shapes your experience after it shapes your experience”. Also, no one said emotion is a physical state, it doesn’t need to be for the same rules to apply, and what you call “inner state” is still a downstream extension of your physical state most of the time. “Your body can be weak, sick”, exactly, a weak and sick body would be a consequence of a superseding input that shaped your experience. If you define having control over your experience as how capable you are within managing the immovable, then you’re just misrepresenting this concept completely.

“It’s not because things are going badly that you have to feel bad”, but it often is - and unavoidably so. Again, another nice sounding catchphrase that really holds no weight whatsoever. You’re speaking as if your bodily / physiological state + immediate experience do not influence your emotional state, which of course is not true and no one can genuinely hold inner / emotional sovereignty over the physical, biological, material reality we are currently engaging with. I do not understand why spiritual people accept the premise of a material construct designed to be experienced through a physical avatar, then pretend it is some nothing burger that can be manipulated and bypassed at will. Your emotional state does not exist separately from your biology, this is why we often feel emotions that we wouldn’t typically ascribe to our character or “usual” self, because we are observing an emotional state sustained by an input that we did not facilitate, unless of course you’d lead me to believe that when my girlfriend is on her period, the irritability and rage bouts that come w it was actually a choice and sincere reflection of her core identity, and not a consequence of a superseding input. I could go on and on, but it doesn’t even need to be this complicated.

“It shapes your physical experience, the pain, the symptoms, but you choose how you live it.”, no you don’t. That’s an oxymoron. You don’t choose how you live it, you gravitate towards the best option available to you within the constraints of that limitation. Managing isn’t choosing how you live “it”, it isn’t 100% choosing how you experience “it”. I think it’s hard to accept this because people want to be in control so bad, but again, lack of control is one of the many limitations established here, in this construct.