Are we in the Dark Ages of trauma? Are we starting to have an understanding of how to work with the psychological experience of overwhelm?

This short podcast has some good information and ideas that may support beginning or deepening a meditation practice...

How and where to find time? 

How to orient towards the practice? 

How to work with challenging voices in your head? 

How to have meditation practice integrate with life?

Jhana Meditation is the form of meditation that the Buddha practiced prior to his awakening and throughout his career. 

Jhana meditation concentrates the mind. Simply put one focuses on the breath, the body breathing, the relaxation in the breath, the pleasure of the relaxation, etc... Most simply put, how can I make the breath even more comfortable? As we learn to make the breath more comfortable, the mind concentrates, and the body becomes increasingly relaxed and becomes a better container for a clear mind.

Jhana meditation leads to states of absorption where the sense of self falls away and "boundless" states can be experienced. It is very good for the beginning meditator because of how it calms the mind and body.

Smiling to the Organs is a Taoist practice in which we breathe kindly into the 5 yin organs (heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys and liver). The practice comes to us through Mantak Chia and is thought to support physical and spiritual health. Included here is a description of the practice, a bit of the practice's lineage, and a story of how the practice can be powerfully affective.

Mark and Emily pick up the conversation about Deproblemation, addressing how relationship and the aspect of Will show up and resolve on the spiritual path and in personal work. Also included is a deep dive into the nature of grief and that distortion of energy. The conversation also touches on spiritual malpractice.

Mark Johnson and Emily Shurr in discussion about Deproblemation and how it relates to the problem of suicide. How to relate to suicidal ideation both as an aspirant with trauma on a spiritual path and as a healing professional? The conversations returns several times to Buckminster Fuller who said: “You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”

National Suicide Prevention LifeLine - 800 273 8255

Emily can be found online here: https://egshurr.wixsite.com/adhdbreakthroughs

Short welcome message to The Deproblemator Podcast in which Mark outlines what Deproblemation is for (meeting our experience in such a way that trauma is systematically reduced or eliminated).