So happy to join Teacher of the Month Jeff Warren for another live meditation and Q&A. If you missed it, you can watch (or rewatch) any time. Paid subscribers get the full session, and Jeff’s opening guided meditation is free for everyone.
Jeff started things off with a practice focused on “mind states”—noticing how our moods, convictions, and thoughts are often just passing weather patterns rather than who we actually are. Despite a few audio hiccups, it was a great lesson in not taking our internal narratives so seriously.
After that, we took questions from all of you. Here’s some of what we covered:
How to find equanimity when we are anxious about the well-being of our children (and why “acceptance” doesn’t mean being passive)
Strategies for dealing with insomnia and chronic pain, including re-framing the goal from “sleep” to “rest”
Three specific ways to turn down the volume on an intrusive inner narrator, including investigating what thoughts are actually made of
How to navigate difficult family dynamics with compassion and patience
Thank you to everyone who joined, and thanks again to Jeff.
As we’ve been saying, next week’s live (Tuesday, Dec. 16) will be a little different. I’ll be joined by the CEO of my company, Toni Magyar, and Roy, our man in support, to walk you through onboarding to the new app. As always, we’ll meditate together first. It’s going to be awesome, don’t miss it! See you then.
IPMF,
Dan
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