One of the roles that I play is being a psychotherapist and having to be a psychotherapist during a pandemic and going to a whole new form of technology was quite challenging. It was quite scary, actually. And it was quite overwhelming for the first little while. And I was just lucky, really, to find this practice when I did, because what I found after about a good year and a half of practicing every week, and with Dave, and taking the intro course, was: when I sit with people now, I can trust emergence. And it starts with the pause. I just pause and I just feel myself and then I just relax. And that relaxing has freed up so much energy in my mind and my body so I’m not so exhausted anymore. And I’ve learned how to listen—I mean I’ve been a therapist for 15 years, so it’s kind of wild—I thought I knew how to listen, but I didn’t. And this practice has really taught me how to listen in this unconstructed way. I just have a lot, a lot of gratitude for teachers like Dave, and other teachers, and I guess I just want to encourage you all, if it feels at all interesting to you, like there’s so much more, I mean it gets quite deep…

I’ve been practicing meditation for—I don’t know, last count, 25 years, and I was always wondering: how do I put this into my daily life? Why is it the cushion feels so separate from everything else? And this just really connects back up for me. So it feels much more fluid. Thanks for listening.