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

I'm your host Thomas Mockonky.

Thanks so much for listening today.

Last week I introduced you into a practice, a sequence you can step

through in day-to-day life. Whenever you are not deep in meditation, deep in prayer, which for the

average person is most today, if we have a prayer practice that goes for five or ten minutes in the morning, five or

ten minutes in the evening, well, that leaves us another 23 hours and 40 minutes to negotiate.

So last episode was all about what do we do when we're just bopping around the world

and experiencing human experience. Experience can be extremely intense, in fact, and it can help to have a bit of a method to

stay present to intense experience, to chew through it.

And that's what last week's practice was all about.

There's more than I can say in a season of podcast episodes on this topic.

It's one of my favorites because it touches deeply on the theme of our human divinity

and the role of creation and the role of physicality, the role of the body in the process of theosis, in the process of transformation

and waking up and all the delicious fruits of a human divine life. So I could talk and talk,

but what I want to do today is introduce a little bit more of the sacred aspect of this experience

of disturbance that I started on last week. Let me pause there. I just said the sacred aspect

of the experience of disturbance. In fact, most of us tend to feel like when there's a disturbing event in life, it's getting

in the way of how we want life to be, how we want to feel.

We're betrayed.

We lose a loved one.

We unexpectedly lose a job, have to change careers, have to change towns.

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