Longing, Felt Fully, Carries Us To Belonging.

In Any Moment, No Matter How Lost We Feel, We Can Take Refuge In Presence And Love. We Need Only Pause, Breathe, And Open To The Experience Of Aliveness Within Us. In That Wakeful Openness, We Come Home To The Peace And Freedom Of Our Natural Awareness.

I Sometimes Call This Our "spacesuit Self" Because We Come Into An Environment That Is Difficult And Challenging, Where We're Told To Be Different. We're Told To Jump Over Hoops To Be Loved And Appreciated, So We Have To Develop Spacesuit Strategies To Get Approval And Create Ways To Avoid Being Judged.

But This Revolutionary Act Of Treating Ourselves Tenderly Can Begin To Undo The Aversive Messages Of A Lifetime.

Underneath The Stress Is Fear, And The Biggest Is Our Own Personal Fear Of Failure.

Self-judgment Continues To Arise - It's A Strong Habit - But The Fact That I Made A Conscious Commitment To Recognize It Has Helped Me Stop Feeding The Story Of Being Unworthy.