why woulld i want to stay with unpleasantness? Often,my first response is you wouldn,t want to and we don't want to and that's completeiy natural.We are rigged.
Our nervous systems are rigged not to like unpleasantness,so we naturally have this tendency to pull back.
get tied
creates more unpleasantness
our psyche still knows that something's there and that we're pushing it away. There's a chronic sense of apprehension
get indentified with the resisting self or the defending self or the controlling self or the fearing self.
the geat gift of this training in awareness is that changes our relationgship with experience.