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May Mindfulness offering ~ You are enough, a deeper dive: Meeting the Inner Critic and the Comparing Mind
May 15 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EEST
$35.00
Refresh your relationship with yourself, cultivate self-kindness and gentleness, as you hold space for the inner critic and observe the comparing mind. What can blossom if you loosen around limiting self-beliefs, including the beliefs that you are separate, not enough, and less than others? Mindfulness offers deeply helpful teachings and practices, so I warmly invite you to join.
It is entirely possible to create new, mindful, positive habits. This is certainly possible with the practice of loving speech and deep listening toward ourselves. ~Sister Dang Nghiem
The Inner Critic relies upon an idea of a self—a small self—that is imperfect and must be fixed. It feeds on comparing, on thoughts of past and future, of mistakes and anxieties. The Inner Critic has no traction in the present moment. When our minds become quiet, when we are resting in this very moment, there is no past or future, there is no comparing. The small self expands to become a huge field of calm awareness in which sensations, thoughts, and voices come and go. ~Jan Chozen Bays
Mindfulness and concentration practice has allowed me to become more aware of my urge to compare. Over time, I’ve gotten to know the folds of my mind that like to compare one breath to the previous breath. Knowing that this state of mind is not unique to me, knowing that there was no “problem” with me has been the greatest gift of this path. ~Eda Ocak