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Heartfulness eMagazine
|January 2023
BRIAN JONES is a corporate interior design artist and writer, who has been meditating for 50 years. He is also a Heartfulness trainer. Brian has been a regular contributor to the online question/answer sessions on Quora for several years, sharing his stories, lessons, and experiences. https://www.brianjonesconnect.com/
Why are we human beings so hard on ourselves?
We are good-hearted, loving beings by nature, and even the smallest emotions, judgments, and criticism send our hearts into ripples and sometimes shockwaves.
The heart is the field of our feelings. The mind, on the other hand, is very tricky. It always interprets our feelings through our past experiences, our filters of right and wrong, our opinions and prejudices.
This story is from the January 2023 edition of Heartfulness eMagazine.
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