Not everything is a Negative Greeting

[Patrick]

...but they also felt that as they progressed, the internal balances had become greater, and so the 'greeting' or 'attacks' would find less of a foothold...

I resonate strongly with your post. It has been my personal experience also.

These experiences brought a great amount of fear to be transmuted in a relatively short period of time. And now I have much less fear overall and this makes these greetings less frequent and less potent.

So yes I regard these "attacks" as a service.