Intensify to Identify

She kept encouraging her mind to feel its discomfort, trying to let it intensify so she could identify what it was.
                            Thomas Perry

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The pain that never bothers you enough to pay attention to it is your enemy — medically, psychologically, operationally.

Practice: Leaning into pain and allowing it to intensify is counterintuitive, to say the least. But it is this month’s practice.

Allowing a sensation to intensify is a way to gather information: You cannot address what you have not acknowledged.

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