If you dig your foot into the surface and remove some of the clay, you will notice that the underlying surface is a hard rubber-like mat.

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Accept the discomfort, get deeply into it, picture what it looks like and slowly, like an onion, the underlying emotion will surface which is commonly fear, anger, envy, shame, a feeling of inferiority etc.

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But a state highway spokesman says they were only working on the surface of the road, not the underlying structure.

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Fully accept this feeling, get even deeper into it and like the next layer of the onion, the underlying experience which has lead to this emotion often comes to the surface.

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