Greetings Soleil.
 This past month I had the honor of experiencing a full weekend with Buddhist teacher, author - (see her books) - and delightful speaker, Pema Chodron. Here's a couple of tidbits that I found pertinent for my life right now...
Bourgeois Suffering & Detox Period...
The audience was kept laughing by this over-70 mother-turn-nun, often about those absurd life situations we all share.
For example, she'd refer to our, "Bourgeois Sufferings" - those moments when we feel that 'ugh' sensation come up. Like:
- When you walk onto a plane and find you're in the middle seat between the
talker and the fidgeter. (I'm usually the fideter.)
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Or the other week I got stuck in 5pm traffic during the closure on I-90. UGH!
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One that I find often - when my body is holding a difficult yoga posture and all I want to do is get out!
Pema says to use these relatively 'easy' sufferings as practice to stay with the experience. She called holding these edges as the "detox periods" - choosing to stay in the pain just as it is, rather than doing that which is habitual such as going into the usual anger, upset, or pull-away.
It is these daily edges that help us build inner muscle necessary in darker times.
As Pema says, "We could be at least as wise as a well trained dog..."
Read the full article - "Bourgeois Suffering - STAY!"... Learn what happened when I "Stayed" (like a well trained dog)!
What would your body do if you Stayed and Listened?
Find out in your own private session...
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