The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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So I like to start kind of informally and slowly by taking a time to find out from you all.

Did you try meditating during the week? How did that go?

Were you able to use the instructions that I gave last week and what was useful and do you have any questions?

So I'd love to hear from some of you. And also that helps me to be prepared to do the next set of teaching to get a sense of where you're at with it all.

Yes, please. And if you can use the mic because I'm probably the person in the room who most needs the hearing assistant devices.

Thank you.

I very much enjoyed your session last time, but one of the things that really helped me was your little hint about standing up and pushing the small of your back into the chair.

I can't sit on the floor because I have knee injuries, so that helped a lot in just sitting

straighter and having more of an open shoulder.

Wonderful.

And that may be useful other places, too, besides meditation.

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

Great.

So I found the advice about three-breath meditation to be particularly useful, because it's something I can do at work.

You know, oftentimes I get hit with an email or a text or something, and I'm like, you know, immediately I'm like, ah,

the anxiety level rises. And so three breaths is like a 30 second come down and puts me in the right space to continue. Fantastic. And sometimes I found it very useful to take a three-breaths journey

before I push send.

So, yes, please.

I couldn't come in person last week, but I watched one of your videos.

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