LETTING GO
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In this podcast I link our ability to let go with our relationship to uncertainty and our sense of self worth.
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TRANSFORMING RESISTANCE TO STABILITY
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In this podcast I talk about the opportunity inside of feeling resistance. How resistance can be a door opening instead of a door closing.
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OUR DIFFICULTIES
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In this podcast I talk about two students who are confronting resistance to difficulty. There is irritation in my voice and I took the podcast down, worried they would hear that instead of the passion I have for the pivot point they are in. However, I'm putting it back up largely because my acupuncturist urged me to put it out there saying that it's my job, as a teacher, to be slightly irritating, that it can bring value, movement, and growth in places of stagnation, if students choose to take it that way.
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IT'S AN INSIDE JOB
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Disease and the Locus of Control:
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PROCESS
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Our body is our unconscious, any good practice will reveal what is there. When the unconscious comes up to the surface it is an opportunity for healing. We often experience resistance to feeling this stuff and develop strategies to avoid it. We can also develop a process of being in engagement with the encounter and through that, heal and develop a sense of stability that is not dependent on the outer world of circumstances.
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CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY
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CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY:
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PAIN AS A BRIDGE
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PAIN AS A BRIDGE: WAKING UP
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A DEPENDABLE STABILITY
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In this podcast I talk about developing the strength that makes us consistent, dependable, and gives us integrity as human beings. It is the strength to keep on keeping on. It involves mastery as well as stability. You become like a rock or a mountain. You feel grounded in the world because you are grounded in your own self. The power that comes from this rhythmic existence is a kind of balance, harmony, and wholeness. It gives us the strength to handle both success and failure. We balance our needs.
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THE PATH OF THE WARRIOR
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Posture, Breath, Science, Emotions, and Being a Fully Human Being
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FALL SERIES - TAOIST APPROACH
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IN THIS PODCAST:
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– Our difficulties are our best teachers, but only if we know how to learn from them.
– Wounding in Childhood, being disliked
– Conscious engagement with our pain
– The heart and the mind
– How to use experience as fodder for the work
– Taking the lessons from our practice out into life
– Resistance, preferences, acceptance, allowance, process & the pillars of practice
– Enduring the long journey
– Opening up to our true nature
NOTE: Near the end of the podcast I talk about two students who are confronting resistance to difficulty. When I listen to myself, I heard irritation in my voice and I took the podcast down, worried they would hear that instead of the passion I have for the pivot point they are in. I took the podcast down to edit it and make it right but through great urging, from those who had a chance to listen, to put it back up, un-edited and raw, I am re-posting it without any edits. I want everyone who listens to know that the moment these two students are in is the moment I live for. It's the pivot point. The tone in my voice is about that passion, it's what gives meaning to my teaching. If you hear irritation or rushing in my voice, it's my own irritation and rushing with myself within this exact moment that I am connecting to, it's the work I have yet to do for myself. Their lesson is my own. I cherish these two as students, friends and fellow travelers who share a commitment and fire for self study that matches my own!
I am re-posting it, unedited and raw, largely because my acupuncturist urged me to put it out there saying that it's my job, as a teacher, to be slightly irritating, that it can bring value, movement, and growth in places of stagnation, if students choose to take it that way.