LGBTQ Guided Meditation: physically renouncing conditional love | GAY ACE TRANS PAN PRIDE

In our 10 minute guided meditation made for any LGBTQIA people, we focus our concentration on how our tense muscles might be representative of us seeing ourselves (and our communities) through a conditional lens. It's certainly understandable; the society we live in is quick to reward competition and the pull to belong, so anybody feeling like an outsider due to their sexual identity or gender identity can end up internalizing harmful messages about their worth and others like them.
There's nothing wrong with being gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, nonbinary, genderqueer or any of the beautiful expressions our communities recognize; sometimes we have to release the tension in our bodies in order to really believe that and to help others know we believe in them too. Let's open up physically in order to renounce a culture or upbringing that promotes conditional love. Let's believe we can become people that love unconditionally starting with ourselves.
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[@hamfood9658]

I like the part about using our movement and posture to represent our beliefs and values over quick capitalism ways like buying a pin on Etsy and calling it a day. Growth (internal AND external) requires sacrifice and time and patience; Thanks for this!

[@Aramythr]

I might be going against the stream here, but I think this idea of renouncement is rather toxic. Sure you might want to escape the deluge of ego if you haven't ever surfaced, but once you've flown along the winds of unconditional, platonic love, you start to realize that it isn't all there is, and that there lacks this spark of being truly alive. Conflict is FUN, strive is FUN, and while we might want to elevate our general standard of comfort and welfare, to not drown in ego, you might be much better off mastering ego, instead of renouncing it.
Tame it, grow stronger, master it. Do not try to push it under the rug with weak will or it'll grab you in a chokehold and drag you in again anyway, ever a cycle of suffering.
By mastering conditional love, you can be conscientious about it and not harm others doing so. And it also doesn't mean you don't have all the unconditional love already flowing through you. I mean, why not both?
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If all you want is tap into the stream of unconditional love, and are sick of earthly things, why be born anyway? You might as well join the Sikhs and leave this planet.