The outcome of a skilful confrontation is increased awareness. But that can only happen if you are willing to be altered by other people taking you on.
If you are stung by someone else’s confrontation – that may not be a bad thing. If you can breathe through it, hold your balance, not react defensively. Can you find a way to ask yourself – “what is being brought into awareness that wasn’t here before?”
No birth of anything worthwhile is pain free. A psychological disturbance means that something in a situation or relationship can be brought into consciousness, into the light. As long as you are willing to be altered.
At its best a confrontation is true to the roots of the words ‘con’ and ‘front.’ To face with.
