Relax into this guided meditation with Trudy Goodman on observing thoughts, connecting with the breath, and allowing emotions to unfold.
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In this episode, Trudy Goodman leads a guided meditation through:
- The mind’s tendency to believe our thoughts
- Noticing the types of thoughts that arise in meditation
- Observing our thoughts coming and going without getting lost in their story
- “Dharma play” and the “cookie jars” of Trudy’s mind
- Recognizing that the mind is thinking and labeling it
- Attending to our bodily sensations
- Delighting in the breath
- Allowing our emotions to be seen and felt so that they can transform
This recording was originally published on Dharmaseed.
About Trudy Goodman:
Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com
“When we observe them for what they actually are, we find that thoughts are a fleeting image in the mind—a moment of sound, talking. They’re actually practically nothing at all… transparent, ephemeral, fleeting, quite light.” —Trudy Goodman
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