Discomfort occurs from resistance to expansion. The greater the resistance, the greater the discomfort. Discomfort is simply a sign that your soul is trying to lead you to a place beyond where you are right now. It works because when it becomes too difficult to continue to resist you will surrender, which allows the forward movement and expansion that your soul wishes to experience.
As you get more adept at working with energy and more in tune with your own emotions and feelings, you will be able to move out of the need to use deep discomfort as a redirectional tool and will start to choose to cooperate with where the flow is trying to take you. This is all part of your growth and mastery.
Do you see? You get to decide how uncomfortable you get as a precursor to your empowered forward movement. As you continue to evolve into better self care you will learn to shepherd yourself forward with your wisdom and love without the need for the extremes that were required in the earlier days of your enlightenment process.
Rest assured whether you fight and kick mightily until you exhaust yourself and surrender, or if you willingly move with the subtlest of nudges, it is all perfect because it all ultimately leads to the expansion your soul is seeking.