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Self-Esteem & self acceptance

Below are the best resources we could find on Self-Esteem and self acceptance.

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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

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I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough”

The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social expectations that teach us that being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate. Everywhere we turn, there are messages that tell us who, what and how we’re supposed to be.

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I Search 4 It Blinded: The Power of Self-Love and Self-Esteem | Caira Lee | TEDxSHHS

National award-winning slam poet Caira Lee speaks to a rapt audience on the power of absolute self-love.

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FindCenterOnly through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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The Posture of Ultimate Possibility

Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of Omega Institute & the Omega Women's Leadership Center, demonstrates a simple but powerful hand gesture to add to meditation practices.

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Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real—Tara Brach

Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love.

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Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

In December of 2011, I gave a talk to an audience of scientists, Pentagon officials, politicians, and CEO's on the secret of life and how I'd figured it out the previous summer. Afterwards, people came up individually and told me how much what I'd shared meant to them.

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FindCenterI am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.

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Buddhanature: You’re Perfect as You Are

Why feel bad about yourself when you are naturally aware, loving, and wise? Mingyur Rinpoche explains how to see past the temporary stuff and discover your own buddhanature.

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Lodro Rinzler—How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People)

Most of us think that love is something out there—something to be attained—yet the Buddha taught that underneath our layers of self-doubt and criticism is peace and love within each of us.

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