It isn't necessary to navel gaze. One can be mindful of breath and actions/sensations while performing almost any task and have a walking meditation. Nor is the idea to concentrate on past hurts but to note them, as they come up, and learn to detach from them (thereby letting them go). Taoists agree that preserving them, like museum pieces, gives them power which is unhealthy.

Interesting. I'll go read that later.

@MsKathleen "Once you understand deeply what made you and therefore who you really are, you can no longer sustain illusions of who you aren’t."

I think we are an electron clumped together with other electrons by polarity. That bonding creates a vibration and we are a shared illusion within the wave. We are not real so there is no evolution, there is no creation, there is no science, there is no god. There is nothing to argue about. We are each contributing to the story being written as the wave unfolds until our polarity changes and we disconnect from the other electrons. Humans call that death. Until that happens we try to keep this illusion from causing our death.

Very nice comment. I agree wholeheartedly with the thought "Once you understand deeply what made you and therefore who you really are, you can no longer sustain illusions of who you aren’t. Then the bubble bursts. And it will not reconstitute itself."