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8 weeks of

RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
Embracing your life with the heart of a Buddha
-Tara Brach, PhD

Week 1
Theme: Something is wrong with me: Recognizing the trance of
unworthiness

Mindfulness practice: Mindfulness of the breath & Mountain Meditation


Quality: Equanimity

Corresponding chapters: Introduction & Chapters 1-2

Week 2
Theme: The power of yes

Mindfulness practice: Facing difficulty - naming what is true & Metta


Practice (loving kindness)
Quality: Acceptance

Corresponding chapters: 2-4

Week 3
Theme: Coming home to our body: The ground of Radical Acceptance
Mindfulness practice: Body Scan
Quality: Embodied presence
Corresponding chapters: 5

Week 4
Theme: Radical Acceptance of desire: awakening to the source of longing
Mindfulness practice: Discovering your deepest longing
Quality: Non doing

Corresponding chapters: 6

Week 5
Theme: Opening our heart in the face of fear

Mindfulness practice: Meeting fear with an open and engaged presence


Quality: Open and engaged presence
Corresponding chapters:7

Week 6
Theme: Awakening Compassion for ourselves: becoming the holder and
the held

Mindfulness practice: Invoking the presence of what is sacred


Quality: Compassion

Corresponding chapters: 8

Week 7
Theme: Widening the Circles of Compassion

Mindfulness practice: Tonglen awakening the heart of compassion


Quality: Compassion

Corresponding chapters: 9

Week 8
Theme: Recognizing our basic goodness: the gateway to a forgiving and
loving heart

Mindfulness practice: Cultivating a Forgiving Heart


Quality: Loving Kindness

Corresponding chapters: 10

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