The paradox here isn't that we should simply accept everything—it's that our very struggle against something can energize it, give it weight and presence. When you fight a thought or feeling with white-knuckled determination, you're actually keeping it alive by your attention and opposition. A person tormented by social anxiety, for instance, finds that the harder they clench against the fear, the louder it speaks; only when they stop wrestling with it does it begin to lose its grip. Jung's real gift was recognizing that acceptance doesn't mean surrender—it means you've stopped feeding something with your resistance, which is often the only fuel it had all along.