Changeable Podcast

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This week’s episode is a portion of a Community call with guest speaker Shenan Charania. This was one of my all-time favorite guest speaker calls and several in our community said the same. Shenan and I talk about silence, presence, regret, thought, and much more. Shenan shares his past as a gang member and his experiences The post EP346: Extremely This with Shenan Charania appeared first on Dr. A...

In my recent silent retreat we explored the fact that nothing was happening.  All retreatants had to do was show up when the gong chimed and be quiet. Literally nothing else. Their entire day from 10am to 10pm was scheduled for them. Meals were prepared and served. Life for 6 days was unbelievably simple. And so The post EP345: Willfulness and positionality dissolve into silence appeared first on...

In this episode, I talk about how I work with common phobias.  First we look at what you’re really afraid of – It’s what you think (literally), not the thing you think you’re afraid of (flying, spiders, vomit, germs, etc.) Then, we look at the feeling aspect of the fear. The combination of imagination + feeling is The post EP344: Phobias – What are you really afraid of? appeared first on Dr. Amy J...

Following has been an important pointer for me over the years.  Following, or yielding to what’s already here, looking toward what wants to happen, absorbing, immersing, disintegrating, or melting into what is, being overwhelmed…these all have the flavor of following. And sometimes there’s a flavor of leading. Not following what the world says in terms of The post EP343: Following and leading are...

In this episode, I address a series of questions sent in by a listener. Hannah says she has performed horribly in past work environments and that’s not a thought, it’s a reality. Isn’t it that reality that’s causing her depression? She also gets that the past is over, but it still happened and it was still The post EP342: Being a failure, forgiving yourself, and the reality of the past: Questions...

Those thoughts that aren’t yours…yes, that’s all of them…you don’t have to pick them up.  If you don’t want them and you didn’t order them, you don’t have to take delivery of them. Let it be this simple. The thoughts that want to make it more complicated than this also don’t need to be taken delivery of. ***Beginning The post EP341: Don’t take delivery appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Peace is not in something else. It’s not in adding more or changing what’s here. It’s actually here, in this, now. How can that be when what’s here now is difficult and unwanted? I’ll talk about the difference between an abstraction (e.g., I’m going through a divorce, my country is at war, I have cancer) – there’s The post EP340: How do I find peace in reality? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, we explore the desire for more of a specific feeling, particularly joy. It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Of course you want more joy. Of course more joy is available. Perhaps joy is even our “default state”. We obviously want to experience more of it! As innocent and obvious as this may seem, perhaps The post EP339: Is more joy available? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode I walk through a practice in unbound consciousness I learned from Angelo Dilullo’s book, Awake: It’s your turn. This is something I’ve been practicing for a few years, and it’s my primary practice on silent retreat. This practice allows you to “get underneath” experience – to see from beyond the confines of content The post EP338: A practice in unbound consciousness appeared first...

In my recent week in silence I saw two things more clearly and simply than I ever had. One, there is nothing to work out. The movements of life around the deep, still, silence that is always there are just movements. There is nothing in those movements that requires anything. And two, those movements in consciousness The post EP337: Nothing to work out   appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, I give an overview of the way I see and work with anxiety. I recorded this episode for people who are brand new to this way of viewing anxiety. I have been deeply impacted by this understanding myself and have seen the way it resonates as truth for so many. At the beginning The post EP336: The Anxiety Episode appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

You know what hurts? Bracing yourself. Holding yourself apart from what’s here. Not that you can, but believing you can and tightening and resisting life as if it’s going to slam into you. Bracing yourself for impact hurts. You know what doesn’t hurt so much? Being overwhelmed. Letting life overwhelm “you”. Seeing that what is arising is already The post EP335: Be overwhelmed  appeared first on Dr...

Lisa Natoli was our November guest speaker in The Community. This week’s podcast is a portion of our call.  I felt a huge resonance with what Lisa shares because things look exactly the same to me (although we may point in different ways) – she points to being in/as what is, as it is, welcoming The post EP334: Welcoming What Arises with Lisa Natoli appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Being in silence is not about suppressing anything.  It’s also not about creating anything, such as an environment of peace or thoughtlessness or anything like that. It’s the exact opposite, actually. It’s about leaving everything alone to simply be exactly what it is.“What it is” is constantly changing. It is totally unknowable. It’s far too fluid The post EP333: Noise is silence shouting appeare...

What is meant by “no self”?  We use the personal pronoun “I” all the time. I am typing (or reading) these words, I am feeling anxious, I am ready for winter.   To what does that “I” refer? Can you identify or locate it in direct experience? In this episode, we’ll see the difference between direct experience and The post EP332: No-Self in Direct Experience appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In looking for the doer, I often hear something like: “Who is doing all of this if there is no me and no doer?” Does there have to be a who? Or is that who question just a remnant of the me-and-my-life perspective? Maybe there is no Who anywhere? It’s similar to Why questions. Does there The post EP331: Who and Why are only words appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .