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Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
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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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Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.
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Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before. The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the trance of unworthiness.
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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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The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
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Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
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As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.
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There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.
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Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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If [kids] get into loving relationships, they're afraid they'll be found wanting, won't have the looks or body shape our culture deems worthy. Many of us feel we're falling short and if we start feeling close to another person, that we'll be found out and rejected.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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I speak a lot about what I call the trance of unworthiness which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of I'm not enough, or something's wrong with me. Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.
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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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