213: Welcoming Anxiety As A Guest -Accepting

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode Gina reads "The Guest House" by Rumi and translated by Coleman Barks. The reading helps us see acceptance from new and powerful point of view. Links/resources mentioned in the episode: http://allpoetry.com/poem/8534703-The-Guest-House-by-Mewlana-Jalaluddin-Rumi www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial Group Coaching Membership: www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching For more information on 1:1 Anxiety Coaching and/or to schedule your call with a coach email us here: [email protected] Stop by the website to learn more about anxiety and to send us an audio recording of your Q to be played and answered on the show! Quote: Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Jalaluddin Rumi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches
0:08.9	Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life.
0:22.0	Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. I'm your host and coach
0:28.7	Gina Ryan and I am so happy to be with you again today as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm.
0:43.0	Today we'll be talking a little bit more poetically
0:47.0	about accepting what is and accepting our anxiety and what that really means and how it heals us.
0:58.0	I hope you'll stay tuned.
1:00.0	So today we're talking a little poetry.
1:05.0	We're going to be talking about a poem that is called The Guest House by Rumi.
1:12.0	And this is often talked about in many different ways
1:18.2	obviously it's can be poems are like that, poetry is like that. But this is really very frequently
1:28.1	recited and discussed in mindfulness type of circles and I talk about it a lot with my clients.
1:37.6	I actually share it quite often and it has been shared on the Facebook group many times. So I'm hoping that sharing it here in the
1:47.3	podcast you will hear the message and that we can maybe unpack it a little bit
1:52.0	more, sort of developpack it a little bit more,
1:52.7	sort of develop the thoughts a little bit more.
1:56.1	And actually, this is also one of my favorite poems of all time.
2:02.1	So let me just read it to you and then we'll go through it piece by piece.
2:07.0	The Guest House
2:12.0	This Being Human is a guest house.
2:15.0	Every morning a new arrival, a joy, a depression, a meanness,
2:25.0	some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Even if they are a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.
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