Meditation: Health through welcoming all of our selves, by Dr Jed Blore

Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

We are always in the middle of life. Cultivating awareness of this most basic of facts can help to heal the damage that often arises from judging parts of our selves and our experiences. For example, every human has a desire for pleasantness and a desire to be free from pain. Judging this basic desire can do subtle violence to ourselves, banishing the parts of ourselves that we don't like or want. The alternative is an open-hearted, open-armed embrace of all parts of ourselves, and of life.