Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
TARA BRACHWhen we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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Self-judgment continues to arise – it’s a strong habit – but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person’s vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that’s very fluid and graceful.
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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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