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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.

Tara Brach

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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Beginning Creation Heart Kindness Love
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering
Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Easy Eyes Love Ourselves Praise Time
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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Beautiful Heart Mystery Ourselves Poetry Touch World
Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Choice Lying Mindset Response Space
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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Dance Each Grace Kind Person Space Togetherness Truth Vulnerable
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Future Help Meditation Moments Present Thinking
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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Bold Imperfection Liberty Life Mess Wonderful
There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
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Choice Present Relate
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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Action Balance Clarity Compassionate Feeling Life Ourselves Responsibility
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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Heart Live Mindset Moments Ourselves True
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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Biology Nervous Ourselves Response Safety Science Smile
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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Expression Freedom Suffering Trust Wrong
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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Act Expectation Kindness Oneself Return
Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Body Emotion InterAction Thinking
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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Accompany Drama Feeling Kind Mindset Presence Recognition Training
When we open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
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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Arise Art Capacity Development Experience Natural Ourselves Sacred
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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Healing Intention Life Love Possible Powerful Present Simplicity Soft
The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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Acceptance Judgement Ourselves Reach Sweet Worth
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Carry Feeling Path Travel
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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Big Freedom Live Old Pattern Tragedy
Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Life Perspective Philosophy Reality Wrong
Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Attitude Challenge Determination Freedom Life Suffering
Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Heart Kindness Love Moments Purity Yourself
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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Alive Awake Body Discover Ourselves World

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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