Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about radical acceptance.

More to come on that in a moment.

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

Okay. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. I'm 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're 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 trance of unworthiness. Radical acceptance

directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. Hmm. What do you think? Big words.

A lot of meaning here. I really like how Tara talks about this radical acceptance and ended being an accepting of absolutely everything, but at the same time not conflating it with passive resignation,

or just saying that we no longer have boundaries because we're meditation people. And we don't

have needs anymore because we're equanimous and spiritual and all that nonsense that can easily creep in on the path.

I don't mean to call it nonsense.

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