Mindfulness

Trudy Goodman – BHNN Visitor Podcast – Ep. 90 – Working With Ideas, A Guided Follow – Be Right here Now Community 2022

February 5, 2022

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Trudy Goodman returns to share a resonant guided meditation observe on working with ideas utilizing thoughts, physique, consciousness, & creativeness.

Trudy Goodman, Ph.D, is a Vipassana instructor within the Theravada lineage and the Founding Instructor of InsightLA. She additionally teaches residential retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Heart in Woodacre, CA, Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Heart, and Perception Meditation Society in Barre, MA, amongst others. Study extra at TrudyGoodman.com.

This discuss from Trudy Goodman was initially printed on DharmaSeed.org

Working With Ideas, A Guided Follow

On this Dharma session from Spirit Rock Meditation Heart’s Fall Perception Meditation Retreat on 10/24/2016, Trudy Goodman leads a guided observe round working with ideas. Welcoming individuals into contemplation and meditation on the conscious consciousness of the arising and passing of ideas, Trudy affords liberating perception and imagery into the character of thoughts and consciousness.

“It’s highly effective and liberating to see how considering occurs within the thoughts, to watch the mind-stream of inner-thought, to sit down by the banks of the stream of consciousness, conscious of what’s taking place with out being recognized and caught up in it.” – Trudy Goodman

Joseph Goldstein shares a Dharma discuss round working with ideas, on Ep. 84 of the Perception Hour

Cookie Jar of Mindfulness // Creativeness, Thoughts & Physique (11:08)

Reflecting on ‘dharma play’—utilizing playful creativeness strategies to open to extra mindfulness—Trudy shares her imaginal ‘cookie jar’ technique, the place she imagines varied categorized cookie jars to position her ideas into. From right here, she explores how you can overcome compelling ideas returning to the thoughts by mindfully attending to bodily sensations, underlying feelings, and the delightfulness of breath.

“Bringing consideration to the physique helps to disengage from the story. We’d really feel tightness within the chest, or pulsing or buzzing within the head, pressure within the eyes or the face. Simply sensing and attending to the bodily sensations helps us see the connection between the thoughts and the physique, and it additionally helps to disentangle from the momentum of a thought-storm.” – Trudy Goodman

Trudy and Jack uncover how you can quiet our minds and regular our hearts in trendy occasions, on Ep. 117 of Coronary heart Knowledge

Worry, Acknowledgment, & Breath (18:01)

After providing views for making use of consideration to feeling and considering, Trudy shares ideas for how you can skillfully bow-to and acknowledge disturbing or fearful ideas with mindfulness and love. To shut, there may be silent meditation earlier than swift reflection.

“A skillful method to work with what’s arising is to acknowledge, supply a bow, ‘Oh, this. Right here it’s.’ Touching with mindfulness, after which letting go.” – Trudy Goodman