Session 1: Allow Yourself to Be Just as You Are
Session 2: Bring Yourself into the Present Moment
Session 3: Wake up to the Fullness of Life
Awake in Every Moment
With Pema Chödrön
Session One: Allow Yourself to Be Just as You Are
Group Discussion
What inspired you in this session? What questions came up for you?
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I love the concept of “just as you are” and making friends with yourself. I also still hear Pema’s beautiful voice saying, “allow, allow, allow….”
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I love the “just as you are” philosophy of meditation…and making friends with yourself. I also loved when Pema said, “allow, allow, allow…”
Thank you! The wisdom is there in your disfunctional habit. So simple and yet so hard. Inspiring and laying a long jouney ahead for me!
As a person who suffers with depression, these words and concepts have saved me from spiraling downward. The more I read,study, and integrate this wisdom into my life, the better I feel. Thank you!
Allowing the present state – not condoning not criticising it – is the beginning of finding wisdom.
Accepting yourself, allowing to whatever arises is so counter intuitive to how I was raised as an American Catholic. The play between the control of the ego and surrendering to God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit was in constant conflict. Anticipating cause effect of those things that could lead us to make a wrong decision or wrong path were constantly in the forefront of my thinking. I remember the first time I attended a meditation retreat and was told quite specifically that I was OKAY just the way I was or is. Instantly, I felt a WAVE of relief and love for myself. Tears well up in my eyes and I wanted to cry forever, to create my own swimming pool of self acceptance, to wash myself of the dust of self doubt, hate, shame that comes with the perception that you were raised to achieve this quasi notion that to arrive, you would have to personify perfection. To BE, was Awesome. To ALLOW myself to feel the moment of arrival. The door of peace had opened!
Someone I love is dying. And I can’t let go of the past we had, wanting back those good times . Feeling like a child who desperately wants to have something.
Sending compassion.
Stop running from anything uncomfortable and ebmrace with a full heart, self compassion 🕉❤✌
Thanks Pema, much love, you save my life everyday ❤
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Reminded to be with what “is”
no hablo ni entiendo el ingles. puedo darle al traductor hasta llegar a la audición, sale en inglés.
Sesión 1: Permítete ser tal como eres
Sesión 2: Llévate al momento presente
Sesión 3: Despierta a la plenitud de la vida
“Wisdom is right there in the habit… right where you are.” So very simplistic, true, and challenging in one simple sentence. Thank you! Powerful!
Deceptively hard/miraculously simple…loving oneself the way one wishes to be loved is the key to giving love to the world. Thank you, Pema Chodron.
As I was listening to the talk and started to allow myself to be just as I was, my poster changed. I began to relax and feel tension leaving my body. Then there came an urge to weep, to howl, to sob for all the times I judged and was hard on myself.. Had I been alone at the time, I probably would have. As soon as the talk finished, I felt the usual need to control and criticise others become redundant. When I am given the license and freedom to be just as I am, a generosity arises in me to also allow others to be exactly as they are. This is a HUGE and INCREDIBLE shift for me.
Thank you, after years of caring for someone I see the impending end.
I have told so many others that we have to be out own best friend, thank you for telling how. Simple but so hard.