Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey.

Thanks so much for listening.

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So every once in a while on One Heart, One Mind, I take a pause from a full lesson

and do an extended practice period

that kind of weaves the former themes together.

So over the last several weeks, I've been laying out a curriculum,

helping you build a skill set, a confidence to rest in God's being, which is one and the same

with your being, at least according to some interpreters of the tradition.

You can explore that for yourself.

But I want to take this time today in this episode to just offer a more extended practice and evoke some of the themes and help you practice some of the skills that I've offered

along the way.

I recommend for this deeper practice to find a place where you can be comfortable and

relatively undistracted for about 20 minutes or so.

And also a reminder, any time we do a practice like this at all when we become still and we turn our attention

and word, it can call up some disturbing material and we can get in a struggle with ourselves

and imagine that it's not supposed to be this way and, oh, this is so upsetting, maybe I'm just

supposed to tough it out. I would encourage you to be really discerning about intense experience that can come up in this

practice and to take really good care of yourself and perhaps even err on the side of gentleness,

that if you feel excessively disturbed, or if I just say it plainly,

if you don't feel safe and grounded and resourced in your own body,

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