Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
Conditioned mind is framing your life, and in this book we are going to turn the tables on it. Rather than “it” being in charge, calling the shots, making the decisions about what you do and how you feel, “you” will have the opportunity to observe “it” and to realize that you can have your own present-moment experience of life. You will have a chan
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Facing suffering, embracing suffering, becoming the conscious, compassionate awareness that can bring an end to suffering, is not painful. Trying to hide from suffering is extremely painful and will rob you of your
Cheri Huber • Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
THE BELIEF “If I were different - better, smarter, thinner, richer, more in control (which I would be if only I had more self-discipline!) - life would be as it should be and I would be happy. As it is, life isn’t the way it should be and it’s my fault!”
Cheri Huber • Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
Being present is what we practice in meditation - to be fully present to our experience, to see through the delusions of conditioned mind and end suffering. SUFFERING Pain is an inevitable part of being alive and in physical form. Suffering results from resisting pain, from wanting something other than what is. Suffering can be anything from abject
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EXERCISE List some of your subpersonalities and what they say. For example, which part of you says: “I don’t have time.” “I should have known better.” “I’ll probably fail.” Add your own:
Cheri Huber • Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline
Every conditioned human being is in a constant, primary relationship with a voice in their head telling them, second by second, what is so, real, true, right, good, beautiful, worthwhile, important, and desirable, as well as what is wrong, bad, to be avoided, unpleasant, ugly, and so on. The voice lets them know how they feel and if they’re being t
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The second, compassionate self-discipline, is nothing other than being present rather than engaged in distracted, unfocused, addictive behaviors based in an addictive behaviors based in an I-need-to-fix-myself mentality. That person is actually paying attention, focusing on what is here to do in this moment, bringing compassion to all aspects of da
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CONDITIONED MIND The everyday mind through which we interact with life is the result of a system of brainwashing called “socialization.”