When we experience pain and suffering, the mind searches for an answer to why is this occurring to make it stop. When none can be found, the automatic response is to resist what is and cut off all sensations that are being felt.
The healthy response is acceptance and taking control of how you will perceive it, which requires practice.
To be in pain and have an answer of I do not know and I am okay can be unbearably unsafe for some.
There are no coincidences and Life is always for you.
There are ripple effects that we are not even made aware of.
We can easily forget that this is an impermanent world always changing, that is what makes it so beautiful in its mystery.
We fall asleep by becoming comfortable and complacent with the way things are that we forget we are in a dance that requires constant movement of change. We have these definitions and storylines of the way Life should look and feel, and when they don't, suffering bombards the psyche.
Accountability has you start with reflecting within to search for how am I creating the suffering. It has you aware that if I created it, then that means I can uncreate it, and if I become caught up in blaming anything outside of myself, then I have no power to shift and change.
Perception is a mighty tool we possess in being empowered with how we will enjoy our experiences and persevere with peaceful determination in our challenges.
Reflection in solitude with the self is a practice in reminding us where the power lies.
Suffering