🔼: #### Suffering Pain x Resistance = Suffering We experience something difficult or painful, and a [[💡 Parts|Part]] of us resists or can’t accept it, and so we suffer. This means suffering is a call for attention from a [[💡 Parts|Part]] of us who needs to be connected with. - [[🔑 Pain and difficulty cannot be avoided]] Suffering and moving through it is a key component of healing from and transforming [[💡 Trauma]]. ##### Transformative Suffering and Spirituality Basically every spiritual text has something to say about suffering: ###### The Bible - [[Psalm 23]] - [[The Book of Job]] ###### Misc - The Dark Night of the Soul ##### Related - kundalini yoga - "Root energy" - Life energy [^1]: The Relationship between Trauma and Spirituality