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“Idiot!” I exclaimed aloud, half-jokingly, when I absentmindedly touched the sides of an empty pot that I’d just boiled water in. Then I quickly said to myself, “I don’t mean it about you personally. It’s just the absurdity of how quickly I’d forgotten.” For a second I felt silly reassuring myself that I’d meant no offense by my own remark. But I also realized that I would’ve worried in the   exact same way  if I’d said that to someone I was trying to be good friends with. I

How does the idea of loving yourself feel to you? Does it feel unnatural, weird, forced, or even gross ? Do you believe that others are able to feel self-love because they look a certain way, have a better personality, or achieved more things in life…but you  can’t, because you’re just too flawed? Do you like a lot of things about yourself (you don’t hate  yourself), so you believe that your lack of self-love isn’t a real problem? Do you intellectually understand the idea of

I recently received this question: "I've been trying to meditate more, and I always hear instructors say that we have to 'tune into' ourselves. I realized I don't know exactly what that means beyond just sitting there and trying not to think about what my husband or whatever stressful thing is happening in my life. How exactly do you tune into yourself? What does it feel like?" This is an EXCELLENT question. "Tuning in" is a very helpful analogy, because when you're constant