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Is It OK to be Ordinary?: Dr Ronald Siegel on PYP 532

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The ordinariness can feel painful for a while where the lack of striving then brings up all the self doubts and criticism. We can actually use the current failures as doorways to explore these vulnerabilities and particularly to explore the past hurts that maybe when they happen we didn't quite have the maturity or resources to be able to simply feel the disappointment. Jim: I got hooked early on on being able to speak reasonably articulately right and you know it's not an accident that I'm in a lot of teaching roles as a result I'm actually not feeling that articulate moment but I just illustrate how this works in real life anyway. The disappointments which are really hard are golden opportunities because each one

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