Self-Flagellation Free
by Kristin
This month's Teaching Balance theme is Self-Embodiment, and before we continue exploring ways to focus on our physical health, I think it is worthwhile to take a moment to acknowledge all the baggage around this topic. We all know what it's like to mentally beat ourselves up about our bodies, habits, and challenges. We can expend so much of our precious mental energy self-flagellating and exhaust ourselves before we can even try to make healthy changes. In this week's talk and practice, I invite you to notice whenever self-criticism/self-flagellation arises and to observe it with the objective awareness that we use during meditation. That alone may disempower your inner critic, and then perhaps we even disidentify with this experience as a way to create more space and perspective.
