Here we may find in more painful feelings; that we are trying to protect ourselves from feeling : rejection, abandonment, unworthiness, bad etc.

We don’t want to feel these. These are too painful.

Yet, they are feelings that have been there all along, waiting to be felt once we are big and strong enough to feel them.

One area is the commitment to old principles, which often have their roots in our core material, which consists of beliefs about ourselves and the world that are not true.

Core commitment :

This is what we spend a lot of our time doing, but the satisfaction seems to elude us somehow.