Vipassana teacher Trudy Goodman provides practical tools for staying present.

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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Trudy Goodman explores:

• Staying connected to the flow of the breath
• The breath as our life-long companion and source of presence 
• The loneliness of thought and being caught in the trap of our own thinking 
• How the breath is our anchor and our teacher
• Cultivating the power of the mind to focus
• The pause at the end of a breath 
• Balancing our energies and moving through each breath with care 
• Stepping out of our familiar reactivity 
• Accepting this as they are so that we can let them go 

About Trudy Goodman:

Trudy is a Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA. For 25 years, in Cambridge, MA, Trudy practiced mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, teenagers, couples and individuals. Trudy conducts retreats, engages in activism work, and teaches workshops worldwide and online. She is also the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series, The Midnight Gospel. You can learn more about Trudy’s flourishing array of wonderful offerings at TrudyGoodman.com

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

“All the ways of being mindful are ways that the Buddha asks us to be true to our own hearts and minds. Mindfulness is a form of honesty, of telling ourselves the truth of what is happening. It's showing us that when we're present with the breath, the breath is not just our companion, it's our dharma friend, it's our teacher.” –Trudy Goodman

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