What's the right way to be in the world right now when we've

addictively been looking at coronavirus news and how many people died or not and

we've been looping on emails and rereading the old emails and then

re-triggered by our spouse or our kids cooped up in an apartment

and a major city and then re-reading those emails again and looping again, it's never been easier

to be anxious or triggered in a world with this much uncertainty and these are the kinds of

inner reactions that if we don't notice it it controls us. We are all grieving and grief gets expressed in such different ways.

That's Trady Goodman, a meditation expert who's helped thousands of people find a way out of

their mental loops by moving deeper into them.

It can come out in form of anxiety.

It can come out in the form of regret, what if,

and if only, and if only had done this,

and if only had done that, and all of those forms of almost sideways or crooked

expressions of grief don't help. We don't have training that we get as children for

how to deal with the fake news of our own minds, the anxiety, the fear, the emotions that just come up automatically.

And noticing these things in our minds is equivalent to gaining agency over them.

It doesn't take a long time or strenuous effort to radically alter the course of your thoughts.

Trudy and her husband, the legendary meditation expert Jack Cornfield, have seen countless people shift their worldview in the span of a few breaths. What helps is to fully feel that feeling in the body, understand the stories that it generates in the mind and be able to hold all of that with some measure of kindness or at least

willingness to be present with it and then it can move through us.

Today on your individed attention we are talking with Jack Cornfield and Trudy Goodman.

Both are dear friends and meditation teachers who've married each other and spent decades

studying and teaching mindfulness meditation practice around the world.

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