The Power Of Accepting Our Mistakes

In this teaching, Geoff Bell-Devaney talks about the importance of recognizing how we can compound our suffering by not accepting our humanity and the fact that we will invariably do things that we will regret. It is by embracing our humanity and our imperfections that we can find greater peace.

Transcript

It's really helpful if you want to stay in a place of greater peace and presence to just simply realize that you're human, That you're not quote-unquote perfect, That you will say stupid things and you will send texts that you wish you hadn't have sent. You will do things that will invariably bring up emotions like shame, Embarrassment, Regret. And then you can see the mind wanting to take those thoughts from that experience and loop and draws into those emotional states. Cause they just doing that just stirs up more shame or whatever embarrassment, You know, I wish I, Oh, How could I have, How could I have, It doesn't make us feel good when we look like that. But we can let go of that looping. We can stay here gently grounded in our bodies. And we can let go of feeling all of the pain of that shame. Straight up. We can just say, I choose peace, Rather than that whole egoic nonsense. We just choose peace. We let go. We let go.