What is meant by ‘aversion’?
In regard to the guidance of pain, such as upon touching a hot stove, removing the hand from the stove, is intelligence, and non-aversion. To continue to hold your hand on the hot stove, in spite of how it feels, is the aversion of the guidance of feeling, and the burn in doing so is what suffering is.
Just like pain, emotion is guidance. Aversion is the suppression of emotional guidance, and feeling the suffering of doing so, just like continuing to hold your hand on a hot stove. Aversion is the mental tendency to label and conceptualize feeling & emotion, vs feeling, listening to, and understanding the emotional guidance of source.
To avert away from the guidance of emotion, is to conceptualize the very ‘substance’ that the mind ‘itself’ is made of & seeks to feel, and is akin to holding your hand on the hot stove.
There is sometimes a tendency to continue to hold attention on the activity of thought, when the current thought, outlook, interpretation or perspective is discordant. In shifting attention to allowing the entire body, every muscle, to relax and sink into gravity, and breathing deeply & slowly from the stomach, the discord is less & less felt within just a few minutes. This is ‘taking your hand off the stove’. The longer you do this, the less the discord is experienced, and the more the true nature of feeling & intelligence arises. It arises naturally, like helium from a tank when the valve is unobscured.