Is Pain the Agent of Change?

Our most natural instinct as humans is to avoid suffering. But you say that, contrary to all our instincts, we have to allow ourselves to feel the pain in order to make progress. Your mentre is pain is the agent of change. And so the pain is slowly forcing you face this new reality. And as you face it, you adapt. As you adapt, it gives space to kind of think about, what, who am i now? And how am i going to live now?"