Tara Brach

And if it's hard to sense you're offering love yourself, bring in a being to mind that's loving.

Just send that message, I'm here with you.

You're held in love.

You don't have to carry this alone.

And I'll suggest some other messages.

Whatever resonates, you can offer it inwardly.

You can be with this without being imprisoned by it.

sending a message inwardly, you are the awareness, the heart space holding this experience, not the identity.

You're more than this pain.

You're larger than the one who feels threatened.

The victim self is not who you are.

And see if it's possible to sense that this victimized self, these feelings that are in the depth of vulnerable being, that this is a conditioned survival pattern.

It's not the whole of who you are.

And that you can choose to open to wholeness.

Turn towards a larger belonging.

Open and feel the awareness that's noticing all this.

Sensing how there's a natural spaciousness and kindness and presence here.

Remembering the larger truth of what you are.

And from that presence, you can ask, what is yours to do in this situation?

What is love or wisdom asking?