Day 300! I'm feeling very happy, accomplished and excited to keep going! I'm somewhat surprised at myself in a good way, my meditation work on loving kindness must be paying off. It is a delight to be able to see the accomplishment instead of all the negatives my brain used to spin out. Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun I have followed for many years, has this to say: "The first step is developing an unconditional friendship with yourself. Unconditional friendship means staying open when you want to shut down, when it is just too painful, too embarrassing, too unpleasant what you see in yourself." I've really been working with this concept. I've seen what kindness can do to a rescued dog and how much love that dog is now able to give to the world. I wonder if we gave the same level of kindness and love to ourselves how that would pour back to the people we love? It's a worthy goal.
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xo