Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
TARA BRACHWhen we open to love, we become love.
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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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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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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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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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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
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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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We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
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