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I'm super excited about the upcoming Power of Emotions weekend coming up in a few days. I'm busy putting the finishing touches to my slide shows and trying to get my emotional ducks in a row. I think it will all come together for Saturday! It promises to be a really rich exploration of our emotions. But have not fear (!) it won't be a cry-fest or encounter group. What's exciting is having new ways of understanding affect and emotion and how it unspools in our day-to-day life. Don't be afraid of emotions! They're the powerhouse of a life well-lived. As site members you can still access the Early Bird discount (£50) if you use the code Emote50 at the checkout. Hope to see you on Saturday.

This morning's discussion around dissociation touched on the societal dissociation of death. And @James Tennet kindly gave a free link the the Tukdam movie that @Mechteld-Hanna Derksen recommended in this month's If anyone wants to watch the film for free, you can do so for the next week at this link. But James also suggested making a donation to Mind and Life at the same time.

Hello Mindspringers, I'm putting together this month's Mandala mail, so if you have any must-sees, must-hears, or must-reads then please let me know in the next few days. https://www.mind-springs.org/mandala-offerings

@Patrizia Tenerelli asked about a mantra for generosity in todays session. Although I couldn't find a specific Sanskrit mantra for generosity (at least from an authentic source), I thought I would post this mantra practice from the book Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley Ferrand. It's a mantra practice that allows you to work with various inner conditions. He explains that it's about offering up the negative quality and invoking the quality of peace. As people mentioned, including me, about various emotions coming during the generosity practice this practice might be suited.

@Trudy Morrison asked: What's behind the idea of "zipping up" at the end of meditation? In yoga, we tend to drum hands on the floor to reground after practice so I assume it's something similar, but I'm curious as to the "up" rather than the "down". And here's my (not very scientific answer): I know that's not very conclusive. But I am writing a blog about the vayus or the energy winds, so that might flesh out what I'm saying here. Keep your eyes peeled for that. 😚

We started a new 8-week cycle of Buddhist exploration at 8 am this morning - looking at the "four immeasurables" of loving kindness (metta), compassion (karuna), sympathetic joy (mudita) and equanimity (uppekha). We began with a meditation, exploring the atmosphere of our own minds. Are we irritated, grumpy or unkind about the phenomena of our mind? In the discussion, we looked at the aversion many of us in the West have about wishing ourselves well... Here's a snippet from that discussion: https://share.descript.com/view/Orbwpz0ql1z

Hi @Karen R. and all craft circle gang, just thought I'd show you how the Kentish crafters are celebrating the Jubilee by decorating mail boxes with their clever creations

Great little two minute video animation of Brené Brown talking about how to be truly empathatic to other people's pain and suffering (as opposed to being sympathetic). Thought some of you might like this too (the comments under the video are also lovely - very rare for YouTube!).