Category: Podcast

EP354: Guided Meditation: Feeling What Is

This episode shares a guided meditation I created for the Resting in Restlessness course. The guidance will help you feel into sensations and sound. I recommend using this guidance as a starting off point, then exploring silently on your own.

EP353: I experience extreme reactions to certain noises (misofonia). Is there anything I can do about this? Responding to listener’s question.

Marie experiences extreme reactions to certain noises, sometimes referred to as misofonia. This makes life very hard in many ways, especially at work and in close relationships. If this is neurologically-based sensitivity, can Marie’s experience of it change? Absolutely. Everything is made worse by our resistance and suppression. I’ll share how Marie can be in [...]

EP352: All of life is a mirror with Piers Thurston

In this conversation with Piers Thurston, Piers shares how everything is a mirror. As he explains, this is particularly seen in other people and in our wants and desires. What we see as others is an opportunity to look at how the idea of me is showing up. Same with what we want – looking [...]

EP351: Resting in Restlessness

What is this feeling we call restlessness? It feels like something is off. There’s an agitation or irritation interpreted as something that can’t be felt; something needs to be different. . That’s part of it, and most of us live with that feeling much of the time. But then there is the movement away from [...]

EP350: How do I stop thinking about this?

I’d been wanting to create an episode that I was tentatively calling “They aren’t your thoughts – Revisited”. Then, a series of questions along the lines of “How do I stop thinking about this?” started popping up, which led me to write something about that, which led to this episode. They aren’t your thoughts. You [...]

EP349: Where does it hurt? Asking the simplest, most direct question

We can all tell our story and it can feel helpful to do so at times. We feel seen and heard, our experience recognized by another person as valid and real-to-us. But what seems even more helpful is sharing what’s beneath the story. Going to the simplest, most immediate thing. Something more like how it [...]

EP348: I can’t surrender or feel self-compassion. Responding to a listener’s questions.

This week’s episode speaks to a listener’s questions about self-compassion and surrender. Jay says they have a block to self-compassion. They want to know how one can access this self-love without talking yourself into it. There are so many threads in this question that lead to an exploration of feeling, expectations, blocks, what surrender is, [...]

EP347: Unraveling ego at the feeling level

There’s a progression that seems to happen.You might say it’s from gross to subtle. Where attention shifts from being absorbed in abstractions, thoughts, representations, and relationships…to attention moving to much more subtle energies like sensations, sensory input, and maybe something like intuition or perception. Identity is viewed in these different ways. From gross thought and [...]

EP346: Extremely This with Shenan Charania

This week’s episode is a portion of a Community call with guest speaker Shenan Charania. This was one of my all-time favorite guest speaker calls and several in our community said the same.Shenan and I talk about silence, presence, regret, thought, and much more. Shenan shares his past as a gang member and his experiences

EP345: Willfulness and positionality dissolve into silence

In my recent silent retreat we explored the fact that nothing was happening. All retreatants had to do was show up when the gong chimed and be quiet. Literally nothing else. Their entire day from 10am to 10pm was scheduled for them. Meals were prepared and served. Life for 6 days was unbelievably simple. And so