Tara Brach

And often we're not aware that there's a gap between how we want ourselves to be and how we're showing up. We're just not aware of it. And it can affect everything because we're social beings and we want to be accepted and loved. And if we feel we're falling short, it's profoundly threatening. And so we're not aware that there's that kind of fear and self-doubt.

And it impacts how close we can feel with others and it impacts how much risk we can take at work or our willingness to be creative or just our ability to relax in the moment if we think we're in some way in the red and we have to make up for it. So it's a trance. And the cool thing is that

And it impacts how close we can feel with others and it impacts how much risk we can take at work or our willingness to be creative or just our ability to relax in the moment if we think we're in some way in the red and we have to make up for it. So it's a trance. And the cool thing is that

And it impacts how close we can feel with others and it impacts how much risk we can take at work or our willingness to be creative or just our ability to relax in the moment if we think we're in some way in the red and we have to make up for it. So it's a trance. And the cool thing is that

when we shine a light on it and even get that there's this trance going on, there is something in us that has a yearning to be free from it and it starts activating healing. So just seeing the trance is the beginning of freeing from it.

when we shine a light on it and even get that there's this trance going on, there is something in us that has a yearning to be free from it and it starts activating healing. So just seeing the trance is the beginning of freeing from it.

when we shine a light on it and even get that there's this trance going on, there is something in us that has a yearning to be free from it and it starts activating healing. So just seeing the trance is the beginning of freeing from it.

And that we all have been fed those standards. It's like I'm not thinking my thoughts, I'm thinking society's thoughts about how I should be. And we all have been conditioned by the same culture that says, produce more and look this way and act this way and everything from... you know, how skinny we should be to how spiritual we should be.

And that we all have been fed those standards. It's like I'm not thinking my thoughts, I'm thinking society's thoughts about how I should be. And we all have been conditioned by the same culture that says, produce more and look this way and act this way and everything from... you know, how skinny we should be to how spiritual we should be.

And that we all have been fed those standards. It's like I'm not thinking my thoughts, I'm thinking society's thoughts about how I should be. And we all have been conditioned by the same culture that says, produce more and look this way and act this way and everything from... you know, how skinny we should be to how spiritual we should be.

We have these standards and our family is the messenger and so they imprint it in a certain kind of constellation, but it's in there.

We have these standards and our family is the messenger and so they imprint it in a certain kind of constellation, but it's in there.

We have these standards and our family is the messenger and so they imprint it in a certain kind of constellation, but it's in there.

Oh, my God. He says,

Oh, my God. He says,

Oh, my God. He says,