Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host, Thomas Mekonki. Thank you so much for listening this week. I've got some exciting news. We have been working on a website for several months and putting all of our offerings together under one roof.

So for those who are looking for additional support and their mindfulness practice, you can

find it on our new website at lowerlightsslc.org. So that's SLC as in Salt Lake City, where we're based. Lower

Lights, sLC.org. So many of the listeners to the show are out of state and even out of

country. If that's the case, don't despair. We have some offerings for you on the website as well. You can check

out our online mindfulness course and we also have a seven-day silent meditation retreat

coming up in southern Utah in June. You can check that out as well. For other people listening

who are more local, we have in-person classes going on in Salt Lake

as well as monthly gatherings.

Our next big monthly gathering is April 26th at the clubhouse on South Temple.

So we hope to see a lot of you out for that.

Okay, that's enough promotion. Let's get down to the practice.

I want to talk today for a moment about heartfulness. And this is a big topic. It's a topic at least

as big as mindfulness itself. But I want to just treat one aspect of it. When I work with students in a mindfulness

capacity, something I often have them do early on in the process is shift their attention to the

emotional tone in their own body, as well as the emotional tone around them.

So when I do this with students, they're often in a group of people,

and I'll have them get into smaller groups,

and notice what they can be aware of in terms of the more subtle information that's flowing through the air,

so to speak. And what I find when I ask students to do this, that they often have a moment

of self-doubt, especially if they've never done the practice. They wonder if what they're

sensing is just a part of their imagination,

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