What if the fear and grief you've been carrying is stored in your body right now and learning to feel it, rather than push it away, is one of the most powerful things you can do for your healing?

In this episode, Bron sits down with Ben Oofana, a meditation teacher and practitioner withover 35 years of experience working with people navigating serious illness, including cancer. Trained as a teenager by Horace Daukei, one of the last of the Kiowa Tribe's traditional Native American doctors, and later in the internal arts of Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and Xin Yi Quan under a Chinese master, Ben has spent decades helping people do the emotional work that most people don't know is available to them.

We talk about what it means to 'digest' lived experience, why suppressing emotion increases inflammation in the body, the simple practice anyone can start today, and what healing looks like when a cure isn't the destination.

Not everyone gets a cure. But everyone can heal.

In This Episode

• Ben's path - training with a Kiowa Native American doctor at 17, vision quests, and 35 years of learning
• What 'digesting' lived experience actually means and why it's different from thinking your way through something
• How unprocessed emotion is held in the body and what that means for serious illness
• The connection between suppressed emotion, inflammation, and cancer
• A simple practice: name it, feel it, locate it, breathe through it
• Healing versus curing and why presence matters more than outcome
• Working with people at the very end of life and what peaceful transition can look like
• Diet, lifestyle, and emotional processing as one integrated approach

The Practice - Step by Step

Ben shared a practice anyone can begin today:

• Name the reality - acknowledge what you're actually facing
• Feel your response - notice the emotion without analysing it
• Locate it in your body - throat, chest, abdomen?
• Breathe with it - slow, full breaths all the way to the abdomen, hold briefly, slow exhale
• Follow it as it moves - emotions progress; let them without forcing a destination
• If it feels overwhelming, go outside - walk with it; the earth helps ground what's tooheavy to hold still

Connect With Ben

Website: https://benoofana.com

Blog: https://benoofana.com/blog

Meditation & training: https://teachmetomeditate.com

Relationship support: https://breakupfirstaid.com | https://healmyheartache.com

YouTube: https://youtube.com / @benoofana

Instagram: https://instagram.com/benoofana

Contact: https://benoofana.com/contact - Ben responds personally. If you don't hear back, assume the message didn't arrive and try again via Instagram.

Ben works remotely with people in any country and is also willing to travel for in-person sessions.

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