We don’t like to sit in our discomfort, whether it’s physical, emotional, or spiritual.
In fact, we usually do just about anything to get out of it.
There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s perfectly natural.
Yet there is something valuable to learn from our discomfort. Perhaps there’s a situation we need to deal with better. Perhaps there’s a relationship that needs some attention, or a physical issue that we haven’t taken care of.
Sometimes, when we allow ourselves to really feel the discomfort, we can gain insight or clarity from it. Sometimes it is a lesson to be learned that we will not soon forget.
We don’t have to force ourselves into the discomfort, but rather just allow what is there to arise and be present with it.
What is our discomfort trying to tell us? What is the message we have not yet heard? What is it that we are not listening to?
We do not have to endure agonizing pain to learn our lessons. We do have to be present to what is already here and allow it to teach us what we have not yet been willing to learn.
