
Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home (2020-03-11)
Tara Brach
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Making Love of Yourself More Perfect
We can actively bring self forgiveness into our meditation practice. We can see the pain of the addiction or of the harmful habit and offer ourselves compassion, offer a message of care. For one woman, she was binging on alcohol and it was affecting her family, affecting her life. Her pathway to making love of herself more perfect was that every day she wrote a letter from her future self to the part of her that felt addicted. She described after months of just writing this daily letter to herself that something softened and there was more heart space for her to hold the vulnerability within her.
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