Meditation

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You can suffer when you're beginning to accept catalyst... kind of like those initial challenges of seeing self, of getting in touch with something very painful, of going thru 'healing crisis', etc.,. But the mind has deep roots... it's like you can work towards acceptance and manage to move forward to this level of acceptance then another root comes to light. But it also seems like progressive experiences of acceptance also shortens the duration of suffering. And so there is something to be said about our growth process.

Like Ken Wilber said, as we get older we can feel psychological pain much sharper (bc we can become more sensitive) but we also have more resources under our belt - more resources to use to do something about suffering. Lots of people who suffer and have yet to realize self-acceptance miss out on their already present resources bc the pain seems to trump it. But I've yet to meet a person who doesn't have this inner resource that they can tap into. Like a lot of times we choose to take the path of avoiding self of avoiding catalyst bc we think we don't have the capacity or skill or whatnot to face it... but with good olds self-searching people do tend to realize they do. Pretty remarkable.