Rumi Has a beautiful Poem that directs us to welcome. . This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ​

Thank you so much, Jeff! You’re my inspiration! ❤

This allows you to be the adult for that young child that they need

Wonderful story! This us exactly how 4 decades of depression were healed for me. I decided to do Vipassana with my persistent depression, breathe into it. First thing I discovered was that I needed to ignore the mental stories and that holding the unpleasant energies was like holding a baby, in loving awareness. It just wanted to be seen and loved. Such a gift to discover that. It took about 4 years to work through it all. One day I realized... What the heck is this feeling? Is this happiness? LOL, I wasn't even familiar with it. A few years later I began awakening with a bang. Although I suppose it had begun already when those meditations started but I had no idea. Now I've come to understand that it's apparently a Tantric somatic practice. Who knew? Thank you God! 💙🙏🦋

I have been following many “gurus” for the past 25 years… Today, your words are the best suited for me, definitely resonate right on the spot. Thank you my fiend

For me just at the right moment😇. I was trying to get rid of it, found all diferent kind of ways, by eating chocolate, waching people telling me to rase my fibration and so on. I Was angry at the people/situation that woke these feelings in me. It was heavy en to much, coudnt't find the way to let it "be". But than this came along. Thank you so much❤🙏

I agreed love that feeling because they are showing up to say hi. They need comfort too and if you just let it be it will settle down like a piece of puzzle.

Out of the blue, Shame Attack! Hello darkness my old friend. At seventy-eight I've been around the block a few times. Stayed with my old friend, made a small painting. A turn of the planet and, like you, I am laughing, grateful, gifts in abundance through this surprise deep-dive into hell - so brief a visit with a state that haunted my early life. We're always reminded of our humanity, it seems, and that x-factor out of nowhere to do the reminding. Thank You Jeff.

Even feeling a parent is a kind of mind mechanism, though a good one. You can totally be with the feeling with no intention to change, purify, or get rid of it. When you realise that your body is able to let it be, and so are you, the feeling becomes progressively less aggressive, meaning it is just what it is, it is not against you. It just is.

..I feel a relaxed and a bit lighter heart having listened to your very kind words…for having signed the ‘wrong’ box…Thank you for such compassionate perspective…🙏🏼

Dear Jeff. Thank you for existing . So sweet beginning the new day with you 🙌🙏

Thanks Jeff I was at war with myself all night wanting it to go away. This new perspective helps.

In this short videos Jeff explains brilliantly this mental mechanism.

what a wonderful message. Thank you very much 🙏❤️

Jeff, this is exactly what I needed to hear today! I have been struggling with shame over a similar kind of thing (a bureacratic nightmare of paperwork, documentation, etc., etc. in order to get my therapy dog approved to visit children in school). I have felt like a "loser" that it's taken so long to jump through the various hoops. I so appreciate your approach to the shamed parts of ourselves, our little children who were shamed and felt like failures. Thank you for reminding me to be gentle with this part of myself, to listen and be open, to offer compassion and all the time it needs to feel accepted. Your words are a gift. Enormous gratitude.

Merci Jeff, your sharing is precious !...Love🥰😊💗

Thank you Jeff for helping me meeting myself more deeply within true acceptance 🙏🏼

This is such a sweet way of working with our emotions. Helps me relax to know I don't have to be terrified of the next anxiety attack or the next feeling of shame. I can welcome it and become present with it and just be with it. Something new. Oh and to share this with my teen daughter will be so helpful to her I know. Even if she doesn't fully get it I can offer her that kindness when she is feeling low and not try to fix her anymore. What a gift.

Gosh, your stories help me meet the little boy in me with radical love, every time. Thank you! ❤

감사합니다^^ 한국에서 당신 책을 두권보고 받아들인다는게 이미 받아들여진거란걸 여태 관념으로 이해했다는걸 눈치챘어요 아~~~그리곤 삶이 주는 그 어떤 일들도 다 이미 그대로란걸 느꼈어요 거부하고 어떻게 할려고 애쓰니 안되었다는걸 알았어요 정말 감사합니다^^

Just beautiful. Thank you ❤

Soooo Beautiful ❤🥰🙏

Love you, Jeff! Thank you!!

Very good and helpful insights, thanks, Jeff!

As usual, thank you for your sharing with simplicity and honesty, it is so helpful for understanding what is going on inside and letting what is coming just to be and being the space holding it, thank you, thank you

Good chat, cheers.

This is gold! Thanks Jeff, I know that feeling you describe well, like the bottom falls out emotionally and my spine runs cold. Even a brown envelope through the letterbox is enough to set this feeling off. Now I know what to do with it I can’t wait to try it out. 🙏

Thank you so much. This is just what I needed to hear right now. xx It's the simplest thing, to embrace and love what is there, but also the hardest. I feel relief though when I realise I don't have to fight and struggle to 'get rid' of anxiety, just be with it, hug it, allow it to say what it needs so desperately to say.

Thanks for sharing dear Jeff. Very helpful❣️❣️

I enjoy your insights and honesty - thank you!

Thank you beyond words! This is exactly what I needed!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this story i feel very inspired and empowered by your content I resonate deeply with it ❤

thank you so much for sharing your vulnerability with us. I had a very intense wave of all this crap a few days ago (and did my best to hold myself through it), and was wondering if people like you also still experience it sometimes. it's really comforting somehow to know that you do

See how brave the little ones inside me have been for so long. thanks for the reminder to embrace this energy and try not to push it away.

Resonates.Beautiful.Thank you.

We are one and we are love

I’ve been having a rough few weeks, and listening to Jeff again, after a few years, is like a breath of fresh air reminding me nothing’s that serious and we should allow ourselves to f .. up. I’m sorry Jeff, I forgot.

"O hard condition! twin-born with greatness, Subjected to the breath of every fool, Whose sense no more can feel but his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease must kings neglect, That private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? And what art thou, thou idle ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? What are thy rents? what are thy comings in? O ceremony, show me but thy worth! What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing." Henry V, being emptied out after the death of his father before becoming enlightened.

So good

Thank you so much for these words, they broke my heart and opened me up to holding the child that kept me alive for so long.

The full story was really important Jeff. Really helpful. Of course sometimes these feelings scream out and sometimes they are really subtle and you have to keep a gentle watch. Something many wonder if they are doing right. What does welcoming look like?

Spiritual bypassing is so dangerous. Our journey is....know thu self. Look at the pain don't ignore it.

Ramana Maharshi said something to the effect that we thank God for the good things that happen to us and forget to thank him for the bad and that that is our only mistake

Thank you so much Jeff

Thank you 🧡

Thankyou Jeff. The way of working with ‘parts’ that need our attention which you describe seems very similar to the techniques evolved by the psychologist Eugene Gendlin in the 1970’s and which have since been developed and disseminated by Gendlin’s practice of focusing and the various focusing associations in the USA Europe and no doubt elsewhere. I wonder if you are familiar with Gendlin’s work and subsequently that of Ann Weiser Cornell who was a student of Gendlin and subsequently developed his ideas. I’d recommend anyone finding your approach useful, to look into and consider learning about the practice and methods of focusing.

Deep inner child work very powerful.

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Wonderful!

Thanks, beautiful words! 👍🌻

Wow! Thanks so much for this!

Changed my life thanks for sharing ❤

Thank you so much. This feels so good what you say. 🙏🏼❤️

This was super helpful. Thank you for sharing that with us. ❤

‘It’s all meditation’ 🥰

Everything wants to be loved.

wow, i had a similar experience but with a different circumstance.

6:06 "it's all meditation" I don't know what hit me at this moment, but some kind of realization clicked and made this so fucking hilarious Jeff 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭 IT'S ALL MEDITATION!

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Problem is not with bad sensations The problem is belielf that I had done wrong

"watch yourself feeling miserable and do nothing about it" Robert Adams

Jeff, i love you. Since you crossed my path after about 5 years of seeking you showed me something i was desperately looking for. I slowly learn to invite all of my feelings, which turned out to be very liberating. The last few weeks iam thinking: is that awakening? Or enlightenment or what ever? I mean if so, no wonder nobody can find it. Because nothing really changes and yet everything changes. I feel like an imense pressure got released. The pressure of "getting somewhere". Actually i keep quiet about this, because i sound like a complete show of lol But at the moment i feel good, even about the unpleasant feelings and i have the urge to share this. I felt like it's ok to share it with you :) Love you all ❤️

I was really shamed for being 'ugly' when i was in school and university. Some random people said to me, out of the blue, 'You are ugly'. Now i'm 39 and I'm ashamed of being alone and feel all that suffering, so I stay with a girl that i don't really like. This is the story of all my relationships. How can I held all that shame, i feel it's too much?

we're being forced to be above and below to make money for others. We were in higher together....telepathy remember I was the love that healed you.

Isnt all this shame and guilt stored in our cells and nervous system? Isn't the initial reaction inevitable?

One way to get over it all is too realise theres no free will, zero Its all the universe/awareness pulling the strings Free will is a total illusion, so just enjoy the ride.

tell me more about the dragon eating someone...

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at least you could find comfort in that it was just bullshit guilt and not something serious

Guilt is a tool to quickly alert you to redirect yourself lovingly to the right path. Shame is the voice of Satan lying to you that you are bad as a person. Jesus frees you permanently from the voice of Satan.

Hello from Colombia, Jeff! 🇨🇴 I understand this is kinda what some people call Shadow Work? When you feel one of these negative feelings coming and appearing in the body (for me is always solar plexus), should you inquire into the nature and origin of the thought associated with these feelings? Or should you just feel the feeling from a state of presence (witnessing the witness, like 'zooming out') unitil it releases from the body? I've seen some differences between the Jungean pshycological approach and the non-dual one. 🫢

Infinite gratitude Beloveds, always very freeing 🌿🤍🌿🕊🌿🕯

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