Okay, I hope you enjoyed the meditation for compassion. Now we're gonna continue the journey of raising our vibration to our next section. What is the title of this section? This the title of this section is called self acceptance. So we're going to go into the experience in meditation, of raising our vibration by accepting ourselves completely as we are. What is self acceptance?

Haha. Another definition of self acceptance is feelings of satisfaction with oneself, despite deficiencies and regardless of past behaviors and choices. So I'm going to for the purposes of this class, I'm going to add on to that a little bit. So that's accepting yourself as you are regardless of what has happened to you or what you think of yourself, blah, blah, blah. So I'm going to add on to that just a little, too, with the concept of responsibility. So, yes, we can accept ourselves and our past behaviors, but we are not absolved of any wrongdoing.

Okay, we need to take full responsibility for the actions that we do in this life to not hurt ourselves or anyone else. So I'm going to add that on to the definition of self acceptance. Yeah. So how can we best understand self acceptance? Well, the best way to understand self acceptance is to understand what it is not. And so the first thing self acceptance is not is unworthiness.

So that's feelings that we're not good enough that we're unworthy. Maybe there's some shame based in it or whatever. So just feeling like we aren't good enough to play fully in the game of life. And with all the people I've worked with over the years, including myself, is that what it all boils down to when you get into the world of unworthiness is that we just aren't loved enough and so And when we have those experiences where we're not loved enough, it influences our entire way of being everything from our behavior and our decision making. And it can be very subtle, and we don't recognize that that's what's driving the direction of our life at times. And so we don't actually know that we're experiencing unworthiness.

So so it literally takes a village to raise a child. So so every kid that's been born into this world, even in the midst of a loving family does not get enough love. And the reason we don't get enough love is kind of bizarre because it's the way that the human being is brought into the world. So we are brought into the world completely dependent on somebody else. 24 hours a day, seven days a week non stop. There is not one set of parents that have been born in the entire universe that are able to meet the insatiable needs of a child.

It just can't be done. There's just too much. And so and then if you throw another kid or two on top of that, there's not going to be enough love for what the kid needs. And so we all grow up competing for love, all of us. And so, and we'll do all sorts of things to get it. So we'll be a superstar, you know, we'll be the greatest person in the world would be depressed, will be hurt, will act out, we'll do whatever it takes to get the attention and the love that we need, because it's not possible to get enough, you know, so it's the way the systems kind of set up.

It's kind of unusual, it's kind of bizarre. But it's what we're born into, you know, so and so what can happen in the midst of that is, you know, if you throw in some neglect or abuse on top of that, we can grow up feeling very, very unworthy. Mike are just not good enough. And so that's kind of the situation that all of us are born into, and the need to compete for love, we don't get enough. And so we all feel unworthy on some, some level and I think every person that is born into the human condition experiences that to some degree, you know, you can see like, the greatest superstar in the world, you know, they certainly don't know what's driving them. It could be because they don't feel like they're good enough.

And so they need to get all the attention they can possibly get. You know, so it's possibility so. So, there are some examples of unworthiness that I like to get out. So these are kind of the extremes we can actually see it at action. But it usually boils down into underachieving and overachieving. So, if you feel really unworthy about yourself, so one can be like a like I mentioned the superstar but where I've seen it before, it's in like a corporation.

Where there's someone trying to climb the corporate ladder, and they're always vying for supervisor approval. And it's just because they can't get enough and so they keep climbing up and up the ladder, you know? So, which is great, you know, they're successful. But it's it can be kind of obvious that way. And then the kind of the other opposite extremist people who are underachieving to a high level and so I live in a town where there's lots of homeless people. And so, you know, that's kind of the opposite extreme worth circumstances and not being loved enough, as you know, left them destitute pretty much.

So they all have their stories down there. So, so those are kind of two examples that are easy to see in unworthiness department. one's kind of overachieving and one's kind of underachieving. is not acceptance, alleviate unworthiness. Absolutely. So, self acceptance.

If you can accept yourself with all your perceived imperfections, it can help erase unworthiness. Now that's a little, it's a little more difficult to do than it sounds. But when we start to accept ourselves as we are with all our perceived flaws and all our perceived imperfections, what will happen is it will start to see other people with their perceived flaws and their perceived perfect imperfections, and accept them as they are. So it can create this mindset of being non judgmental. And when we get into that non judgmental mindset, what that does is that raises our vibration. So I will actually create an experience in our minds and in our bodies that will help elevate us to a certain vibrational level, which is, you know, the opposite of being judgmental.

And it kind of goes back to compassion a little bit. It's on that same wavelength. Where if we accept ourselves as we are, then we can start to accept everyone else as they are. And so and then when we start to get in Playing on that level of life, it starts to open the doors, this thing that's called unconditional love. So. So when you can start experiencing that, like within your circle of friends, it's a really great start.

And then if you can take it further than that, and you know, it can open up to the whole world. So well be doing in this meditation. So this next meditation that we're going into is probably one of the most profound ones that I have ever done with people because what we're going to do is we're going to go into a deeply relaxed state. And then we're going to go into an experience of when you were quite young to completely reshift and refocus your experience of yourself if, if it's fitting for you so and then bring you into an experience where you're absolutely unconditionally loved by your perfect parents. So it can be quite transforming for people. I think this is probably one of the most powerful meditations I've ever done with anyone.

So, so let's go to meditation and accept ourselves on a very deep level. How's that sound? Sounds great. See you there.