Meditation: Self-acceptance, by Jack Doshin Wicks

Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

Most people, whether long-term meditators or not, engage in some kind of judgemental, negative, self-talk. We may not even be fully conscious of how we criticise ourselves and reject certain parts of ourselves. We are so used to doing it that we may not even know we are doing it. Sometimes it can be loud and sometimes very quiet and ubiquitous in the background of our psyche. This meditation is an invitation to notice this and to come to terms with and include all aspects of ourselves. Self-acceptance is the doorway to healing and to a full and rich life. When we can accept ourselves, we accept others, and the world opens its doors to us. We can discover that it is only we who deny ourselves our heart’s greatest desire: connection and love with others.