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