The following reflection is led by Tara Brock.

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We'll take a few moments to allow yourself to settle, to feel your body and your breath.

Feel your intention that we might remove the veils that cover what's right here,

the beliefs that create a barrier between ourselves and loving fully.

Just feel the sincerity of that intention.

You might bring to mind some situation in your life that gets you very reactive or you feel stuck,

some conflict or some distance with one person perhaps.

Sensing when you're triggered and when you're feeling that distance, that conflict, that separation,

that separation, that's what you're believing.

Again, just ask yourself, what am I believing about myself or about the other?

What does it mean to me if that person is treating me in this way?

What are you believing?

The belief might land on that person's bad or wrong, might also land on, I'm not lovable,

I'm not worthy.

Don't worry if you're not sure because this is a practice, it's a life practice really,

and we're just getting a taste here, you can revisit it.

But just a sense, if you're believing in some way that you're failing or the other person

is, and ask yourself that question, that simple question, is it true?

Is it possible the sense that it's real but not true?

Is it possible the sense that as a map or representation that's probably been there a long

time, conditioned by the culture and by our personal history?

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