Jeannie invites participants to soften and sink and rest into being. She talks about spiritual teachings and how within each, there is a lived experience that is much different than the shallow application of such concepts. The challenge of these teachings is to bring them down into the body where they can be lived instead of just known in the mind. Jeannie explains how letting go actually happens, taking into account how the unconscious functions and its role in our struggles. The first step is to mercifully be with the experience of being bested by aspects of our humanness. Being patient with the layers of feelings that arise will lead to eventual digestion of these layers.

Exchanges

Exchange 1: Participant struggles with addiction and making decisions about caring for herself. Jeannie supports her to rest from the confusion and rest simple in the grief, vulnerability and simplicity of the moment. She walks her through trusting her own sense of what resonates.

Exchange 2: Participant is having issues at his workplace. Jeannie helps him to sit in the feelings of his young one who wants things to be fair and to feel acknowledged. Jeannie invites the participant to have a daily practice of sitting with the hard pain as it arises and also to understand the role his protective yang side can play in healing and helping the young one.

Exchange 3: Participant presences her challenging feelings of dread and anxiety. Jeannie agrees with the participant’s realization that the mind chatter is not helpful or useful, especially when a negative loop is habitual. She encourages the participant to drop into felt experience when the whirl of mental activity arises. Jeannie also shares thoughts about how and when it is helpful to ‘share impact’ with others. 

Exchange 4: Jeannie sits with participant as she explores a deep feeling of emotional pain.