Space Studio. Hi, my name is Dora. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday.

So if you didn't know already, I'm one of the newest headspace meditation teachers, which has truly been a dream come true.

Like imagine, a requirement for my job is just to meditate and be present.

Another aspect of the job and something I do for my own personal practice is to continue to learn and expand my knowledge bank. myself more on the Eastern philosophies of meditation and came across a book called

Feeding Your Demons. It explores an ancient Tibetan practice called Chaud

which is a meditation process for resolving inner conflict by offering ourselves the very things that we resist are demons.

When we don't, this is where things like self-sabbatage, doubt, fear, and a lot of our self-destructive behaviors and thoughts

are birth from.

So in this Tibetan practice, demons aren't big, scary black creatures with fangs. the book describes them as anything that hinders us from our liberation.

So they aren't necessarily things that live outside of us, for the most part they live in our mind,

coexisting with our thoughts and emotions. And it made me think about, eventually, we'll have to stop running before we turn into

the very things that we're running from.

One of the ways we'll know if we're running away from our demons is by looking at the

things that we criticize or try to control in others or in our environment.

Oftentimes we judge the things that others embody that we repress in ourselves.

So for example, maybe you're an introvert, you're more on the quiet side, and you have a friend that's the life of the party.

Something that you've always wanted to be, but just didn't know how.

So every time you're around this friend, there's a bit of resistance or judgment that

arises when they're just being themselves. That energy, that sense of

annoyance is a demon and most times we resist that.

Maybe we judge that person for being obnoxious or overbearing

when all along this is something that we desire for ourselves.

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