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How to Stop the War Against Yourself | Tara Brach
How to Stop the War Against Yourself | Tara Brach
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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Dec 14, 2022
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Podcast episode
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It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evidence shows that’s not true, and today’s episode dives into strategies to deal with your own self-hatred. This is part two of a series this week on forgiveness. In our last episode, Jack Kornfield focused on forgiving other people and in today’s episode, Tara Brach talks about forgiving yourself. Tara Brach is a meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. Her weekly podcast is downloaded 3 million times a month. Tara is also the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. In this episode we talk about:Why Tara says self-hatred “divides us from our ourselves”The benefits of learning the habit to stop kicking our own assesSimple meditations to help us with self-forgivenessQuestions that can help us understand what really matters to us, and what we really wantThe power of seeing the profundity in mundane experiences A refresher on a fan favorite meditation technique: RAINHow to start trusting reality more than we believe the beliefs about ourselvesForgiveness vs accountabilityFull Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/tara-brach-534See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Released:
Dec 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
#4: Dr. Jay Michaelson: Dr. Jay Michaelson is a lawyer, a rabbi, a legal/religion columnist for The Daily Beast, an LGBT activist, a professor, and an author of six books. Yet despite his staggering number of day jobs, Michaelson has also found time to intensively practice meditation. In fact, add another job to the resume: He’s also a meditation teacher. And not only does he practice and teach meditation, he says he’s had experiences of enlightenment, or "awakening." by Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris