Self-reflection - Why Delay?

Some of us suspect that deep down inside, we're nasty, "rotten to the core", and thus have a true aversion to any form of introspection. In a recent study, many people actually chose painful electric shocks rather than sit quietly by themselves for a few minutes. http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2014/08/563-meditation-training-for-restless.html

"I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member." Groucho Marx

Most of us are less-than-perfect, but should that keep us from self-reflection, which many consider a fundamentally important human capacity?

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

Meditative traditions are, as you'd expect, huge proponents of self-reflection. And this is despite the fact that they have a very clear, completely realistic understanding of the full range of our capacities - "the good, the bad & the ugly." Through mindfulness meditation, we learn to see & experience reality clearly AND learn to kindly engage with it, including the full spectrum of our own & others' humanity. We learn to hold "the full catastrophe" in calm, clear, open-mind-hearted, spacious awareness.