But the rejection of pain is what causes it to metastasize into suffering. It is by clinging to those thoughts that the pain gets worse.
Imagine you've acquired an infection, and it hurts terribly. By telling yourself things like "if only I hadn't hurt myself," or "I deserve this" or "why did this have to happen," you are not treating it. You are just letting the infection fester and get worse. It is only when we acknowledge it exists that we can clean it out and start to heal.
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Date: 2024-04-18 06:44 pm (UTC)Imagine you've acquired an infection, and it hurts terribly. By telling yourself things like "if only I hadn't hurt myself," or "I deserve this" or "why did this have to happen," you are not treating it. You are just letting the infection fester and get worse. It is only when we acknowledge it exists that we can clean it out and start to heal.