Good morning.

Yeah, so a couple of comments and then open it to questions.

One of the great questions that I like to ask myself and is out there in the field is,

you know, what is it that I'm unwilling to feel?

When I find if I ask that, it kind of shines a light on what I've been unconsciously pulling

away from.

It's much like, you know, what's really happening.

And then the follow-up inquiry is, then, can I be with this?

And I use the word yes a lot just because it said that willingness to let what's here be here,

to acknowledge reality and open to it.

So that's a lot of the theme that you'll hear here is that we notice what's happening

and then the attitude and can the attitude be one of willingness?

So I want to offer a caveat to that, which is that it's not always the wisest and most

compassionate thing to say yes to what's here.

And just to put that out there because I've had a number of questions about, well, what

about if there's a lot of trauma going on in my system?

You know, do if there's trauma, do we say, okay, what am I unwilling to feel?

Well, I don't want to feel that trauma.

All right, can I say yes to it?

That might not be such a wise idea because it's possible if we really try to dive into

something that we could get flooded and overwhelmed and really not have the resourcefulness

or balance or perspective to actually allow it to be an experience that helps to wake

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