Online with Jeannie Zandi

Jeannie invites participants to settle into the moment, guiding them to soften and sink. Jeannie talks about the value of mercy in translating spiritual teachings into embodiment. Mercy is a softening toward innocence and humanness, and our conditioning generally does not allow us to be accepting and soft toward the fallibility of our humanness nor the creature of the body. Instead, we are conditioned to create an image of perfection we attempt to attain, and then we harden and are harsh to ourselves and to the body where we are human. Recognizing this pattern of harshness and softening can allow us to replace the harsh taskmaster within with a softening and opening to what is internally. Jeannie talks about the holiness of the human being and the importance of accepting our humanness on the spiritual path.

Exchanges

Exchange 1: Participant expresses relief at the acknowledgement of humanness and having a sense of how to approach what he calls "the lower self." Jeannie talks about awakening and embodiment and the work of meeting the shadow. 

Exchange 2: Participant feels deep familiarity and longing as she listens to Jeannie. She said she has an irrational fear of death. Jeannie says mental information rarely translates to our emotional states. The core of the fear of death is simply the fear that rises in the space of the unknown. Jeannie gives her ways to meet the fear. 

Exchange 3: Participant is experiencing pain and fear and doesn't have much access to the beauty. Jeannie talks about the dark night of the soul and shares some learning from that experience. Participant said he doesn't have easy access to the grief he carries, and Jeannie talks about what helps to facilitate grieving. 

Exchange 4: Participant finds she returns to herself when she listens to Jeannie. Jeannie talks about her presence being soothing to those in the dark because she is resting that deeply "in the well." They discuss prayer. Jeannie encourages her to rest in being. 

Exchange 5: Participant has been reading Peter Levine and is interested in processing everyday trauma.  She exchanges with Jeannie about digesting and meeting overwhelming experience. 

Exchange 6: Participant is going through some relationship pain and she has figured out that she has an young unmet need that's fueling it and she's not sure how to meet the need. Jeannie talks about these early needs and how to negotiate them.