Getting Shot by Two Arrows

The first arrow is the painful emotion of anxiety. And then we shoot a second arrow because we're disliking our insecure, anxious, failing self,. We're blaming ourselves for the experience. When it's habit of judging yourself, we're creating an abyss that really locks us in suffering. It solidifies our identity as a bad self and distances us from others. So this is what we're practising, really learning to offer to our inner experience, this nurturing.