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The full reality of the world around us is of change and impermanence. We have no control over the changing nature of phenomena, nor the fact of our own impermanence, so the only thing we can do is to make peace with it in a spirit of compassionate acceptance. Regular meditation might help us to cultivate a mindful appreciation of impermanence, allowing us to understand ourselves as part of the ever-changing universe, interconnected and interdependent upon it, and to go with the changing flow of experience rather than trying to resist change or deny the reality of our own mortality. There might even come a time when we can look around us and appreciate that the natural world, our experiences, loved ones, and even life itself, are only as beautiful and precious as they are because they are impermanent! The intrinsic changing nature of the universe is something that connects us all, but this can only be experienced if we allow ourselves to fully accept the beauty of our own impermanence. — Galeyman #impermanence #change #acceptance #meditation #resistance #mortality #galeyman https://www.instagram.com/p/CeEIpmKODWt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Giving Our Critical Voice Room to Speak The way to deal with the critical voice is by practicing meditation, and by giving it room to speak. In this way we start to notice it popping up in our everyday lives and we begin to feel more empowered about choosing whether or not to believe it - and whether or not we should act upon its distorted view of reality, or the one we see in front of us. This process takes patience (the voice has been with us forever and it’s not going to disappear overnight), and it also takes compassion. Turning self-judgment into self-compassion goes hand in hand with turning outward looking judgments into compassion for others. — galeyman #internalVoice #meditation #zenwords #criticalVoice #compassion #judgment #self-judgment #self-compassion #mindfulness #meditation #zenwords #galeyman https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci2eXgXu2F2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#criticalVoice #compassion #judgment #self-judgment #self-compassion #mindfulness #meditation #zenwords #galeyman The way to deal with the critical voice is by practicing meditation, and by giving it room to speak. In this way we start to notice it popping up in our everyday lives and we begin to feel more empowered about choosing whether or not to believe it - and whether or not we should act upon its distorted view of reality, or the one we see in front of us. This process takes patience (the voice has been with us forever and it’s not going to disappear overnight), and it also takes compassion. Turning self-judgment into self-compassion goes hand in hand with turning outward looking judgments into compassion for others. — galeyman

#judgingOthers #judgment #egobuilding #suffering #peace #innerPeace #acceptingOurselves #acceptingOthers #mindfulness #meditation #zenwords #galeyman By judging others either positively or negatively we are actually saying something about ourselves and how we are different from everyone else. This created sense of separateness (ego-building) is one of the fundamental causes of our suffering and keeps us from the peace that we might find in accepting others for who they are, and, in turn, accepting ourselves. — galeyman

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#ourCriticalVoice #compassion #reality #mindfulness #meditation #zenwords #galeyman Meditation allows us to notice the critical voice more clearly and to question it in a compassionate way - comparing the story it is telling us about ourselves and the world, with the reality that we can see directly in front of us. Just like with our thoughts, we don’t try and push the voice away or battle against it (it’s there anyway so we may as well face it), but by shining a light upon it we can reveal it for what it is - a negatively-biased bully - and begin to question WHY the voice speaks to us in such a way.