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If we believe it should be otherwise, then a wave of hindrances is considerably more upsetting than it needs to be, for it is then interpreted as meaning something about the success of our practice, or, worse, about ourselves and our self-worth. It is a practice to learn not to take the hindrances personally, to let go of any self-evaluation that we might tend to attach to their arising, and to remind ourselves that all their presence means is that we are human beings still.