why is catalyst so painful?

[kdsii]

Yes, catalyst is any element that encourages change.
Remember that 'suffering' = 'pain'+'resistance'.
The resistance is what creates the suffering.

Once you accept the catalyst, be it painful even, you can see it as a catalyst that has already served its purpose.

Resistance of yourself/otherselves/catalyst/etc will cause the events to replay, and replay, because the lesson was not learned.
I'm working on my own ego for this very reason, it keeps me from accepting painful events at times.

I know that othes and Ra have said that Catalyst can be anything or everything that comes to awareness, so it can be good/plesant thoughts.

What was your purge, may I ask? It's been an intense past week for me as well!

but I normally associate catalyst with SOMETHING bad or unpleasant, an unwanted.

there is something in the human mind (or my mind at least) that seems to resist the beautific change that the promptings of catalyst offer, and yet these are promptings that do not go away until addressed.

there is something in the ego that wants us to say that we are right, and have always been right, and the catalyst is a thing that points to the contrary, that an opinion or behaviour needs adaptation to the present circumstance.

funny, because Ra did not use our term ego, maybe because it was already so loaded.

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I say catalyst is painful because I had a weekend of spiritual purging, and while much better for the experience, it wasn't a pretty mental experience lol.