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When acceptance practice meets actual physical pain

I practice presence and acceptance but when physical pain flares up I immediately tense and resist and all my spiritual understanding goes out the window.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Conceptual acceptance collapses under real somatic challenge without sufficient embodied training in difficult sensations.

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