[Awakening](Awakening) and healing have traditionally been treated as very serious matters. And that's understandable.  Suffering is serious. But there's also some playfulness, sweetness, and humor to be found in the ways that [parts](Parts) struggle to protect us. The methods our parts use to help may be wildly counterproductive: [[Protector roles that were in some way adaptive in the past may be maladaptive now]]. But their intentions are pure: [[Protectors have positive intent]]. We will remain conditioned and asleep if we resist our [parts](Parts). But if we can hold them when they arise like a grandmother holds their grandchild as she cries over something silly and sweet, we'll find that the wounds and conditioning of our parts will dissolve naturally: [[Self-energy is healing]].