The following meditation is led by me, Tara Brock.

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As you come into stillness, take a few full breaths, a nice deep in breath, and a slow outbreath.

And again, a nice deep full in breath, filling the chast, filling the lungs.

And then a slow outbreath, filling the sensations of the breath as you exhale.

And then letting the breath resume and its natural rhythm.

Just feel this body breathing.

And take some moments to scan in your life.

And you might notice where your relationships with others or in your own behaviors you feel like you've turned on yourself in some way.

There might be in a situation where you're in conflict with another person but feeling bad about yourself.

It might be that you've turned on yourself, you're at war with yourself for a way that you're behaving as a parent, a partner, a friend.

It might be judging yourself or down on yourself for something to do with work, or maybe it's for an addictive behavior.

Where do you get into the trance of unworthiness?

The trance of not okay.

Let your attention go to that place where you know you get into the trance.

For now, just let yourself kind of get close into it.

So you can feel the sense of how it is to be living inside that mind state of the belief that in some way you're falling short, you should be different.

Perhaps there's a sense of not lovable, not okay, not respectable, something's wrong.

You begin the reign of self-compassion by recognizing, oh this is trance, at war with myself, recognizing the thoughts and feelings of the trance.

It's allowing that all to be here right now.

I'm making a room for what's here. The A of reign is just to allow, this is how it is right now.

We begin to investigate with curiosity, with gentleness.

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