Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit Tarbrock.com. Namstay. Namaste. Welcome friends. There's a teaching from my first yoga teacher that I love to share.

Very simple, you might remember it she says put your right arm over

your left and hug yourself and then she says put your left arm over your right and hug

your evil twin. And the understanding is that to be intimate with life, you know,

to be fully alive and awake, we need to include and be intimate with all parts of our being the

unpleasant body sensations and the difficult emotions like fear and shame

we need to include it all and as many are aware we have very strong

conditioning to pull away and the more unpleasant the experience the more we dissociate it's a natural

coping strategy and when it locked in over time we're living in a trance. I'd say much of the spiritual path is a reconnecting

with what we've pushed away, with the life we pushed away. And the first step is bringing into the light of awareness the signs of dissociating. So we can once we see it with wisdom, with kindness, deepen our attention, reconnect.

This is the theme of today's reflection and it's a meaningful one both on our

individual past and also in the world because the more we heal the inner divides, the more we're able to experience and live from our

larger belonging. So thank you for being here and I hope you enjoy.

Welcome.

I often speak with the languaging of trance that we get caught in a trance that narrows our world.

And I was remembering one of my first conscious experiences

of waking up out of a trance.

And my entree into a lot of spiritual practice was through yoga and I remember

I was in college and I had done a yoga class and we would end our yoga class with meditation with silence.

And so my mind was pretty quiet when I walked outside and it was springtime and there

are fruit trees.

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