Hello, and welcome back to practicing human. The podcast where every day we're

getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Cory Muscarra, and in today's

episode we're going to talk about radical acceptance. More to come on that in a

moment. First, let settle in together with the sound of the bells.

So I'd like to read you a passage from Tara Brock, a meditation teacher who wrote

the book, Radical Acceptance. She says, the way out of our cage begins with

accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives by embracing with

wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience. By accepting absolutely

everything, what I mean is that we are aware of what is happening within our

body and mind in any given moment without trying to control or judge or pull

away. I do not mean we are putting up with harmful behavior, our own or

another's. This is an inner process of accepting our actual present moment

experience. It means feeling sorrow or pain without resisting. It means feeling

desire or dislike for someone or something without judging ourselves for the

feeling of being driven to act on it. Clearly recognizing what is happening

inside us and regarding what we see with an open kind and loving heart is what

I call radical acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our

experience, if we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart

shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and

feelings of separation that sustain the trans of unworthiness. Radical

acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.

What do you think? Big words. A lot of meaning here. I really like how Tara talks

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