Learning to Sit With Discomfort

How to observe difficult emotions without rushing to fix or escape them.

There’s a quiet skill that rarely gets much attention. It doesn’t make headlines, doesn’t trend, and doesn’t come with a checklist or badge of success. But over time, it changes everything: the ability to stay with discomfort without immediately reacting to it.

Most of us are trained, subtly or directly, to move away from pain — to solve it, suppress it, distract ourselves from it, or reframe it into something prettier. This instinct makes sense. After all, discomfort is… well, uncomfortable. But the more I pay attention, the more I see how powerful it is to not flinch. To stay still. To simply feel what’s there — fear, frustration, anxiety — and let it exist without trying to make it go away.

This isn’t about becoming passive or stoic in the cold sense. It’s about building a deeper kind of presence with yourself — one that doesn’t rush, judge, or escape. And in my experience, that’s what actually begins to heal things.

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