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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namstay, welcome. Thank you for being here. So I begin with a brief little vignette. There's this high performing

corporate executive and he does well in most parts of his life. He has one challenge, one embarrassing difficulty,

which is once a month at the meeting

with the president of the company,

he wets his pants.

And so naturally, I feel quite ashamed about that.

And the kindly president encourages him to seek therapy.

And what he does instead is he takes some mindfulness classes and the following month he's there at the meeting and the same thing happens and the president said well didn't you go to get some therapy?

And he goes, oh, I started doing mindfulness practice.

And it's still happening, but I'm feeling fine about it.

And I'm not embarrassed any longer.

Okay, so a little bit of a silly story, but it's a it's actually an entree to this week's talk. We're're doing part two on embodied presence and we're going to be focusing in this week on how to be present with and relate

mindfully and heartfully to physical challenges and to pain. And of course it clearly does not mean that we don't also take care in other ways. But there's a huge amount of

suffering that goes on when we when we have pain or cute sicknesses where

we're kind of in reaction to what's going on, fearful, angry at our bodies,

there's all different dimensions of reaction.

So it's a deep inquiry. How do we find some equanimities and

presence some ease in the midst and in that less suffering with whatever's going

on? So in the less suffering with whatever's going on.

So in the broadest way, this talk and the last one,

last weeks, is the invitation rather than living so fully in our minds, which is just full with

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