Category Archives: Live Streams & Talks

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 3: The Safety of a True Friend

Live Streams & Talks, Mindfulness

Today’s sharing on safety is an inquiry practice into the qualities that make a friendship a safe place and how these qualities are manifesting, or not, in our mindfulness practice. Note: One quality named was “perspective”. It needs to be acknowledged that a friend offering a larger perspective on an issue can be either helpful … Continue reading Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 3: The Safety of a True Friend →

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 2 [4.3.24]

Live Streams & Talks, Mindfulness,

This time we look at a reliable sense of safety more through the lens of neuroscience/modern psychology as well as introduce the Buddhist practice of lovingkindness– which was originally taught as an antidote to fear.   Discourse on Good Will From teachings of the Buddha, complied by Jack Kornfield May all beings be filled with … Continue reading Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 2 [4.3.24] →

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 1 [3.27.24]

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We look again at the necessary nourishment of an internal sense of safety that is not dependent upon having things be the way we want them to be– this time primarily from a spiritual standpoint, drawing from leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, and the writings of Etty Hillesum.   Please note: Bad audio … Continue reading Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 1 [3.27.24] →

Safety, Connection and Respect Inquiry Practice [3.14.24]

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We come back again to safety, connection and respect this week– this time with inquiry questions to consider these qualities for yourself. Consider a time in your life where you know something about these 3 qualities, some place with a palpable sense of these qualities. What is that felt sense of being met in this … Continue reading Safety, Connection and Respect Inquiry Practice [3.14.24] →

Basic Nourishment of Safety, Connection and Respect

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Just as sunlight, water and soil are basic nutrients for plant life well-being, safety, connection and respect are basic nutrients for our own human well-being. In this sharing we explore how we might offer this kind of nourishment towards our own selves in order to be more available for meeting these needs in our world.

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Meeting Place of Mindfulness and Prayer [1.24.24]

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We continue our exploration“connection with spirit,” which Polyvagal Theory names of as one of the 4 foundational connections needed for human well-being.  Today we look at this through the lens of prayer.  Where might these words, prayer, devotion, sacred get hung up for you?  Where might they be useful in pointing to an aspect of … Continue reading Meeting Place of Mindfulness and Prayer [1.24.24] →