HeyJaredMindful Letters
A newsletter documenting a collective of people both in and out of prison linked by shared meditation practices.
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Compassion for Everyone but You (opens the original)
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This week’s episode is a conversation with my friend Elvira. She’s an artist and a filmmaker, and we have been sitting together in a meditation cohort for years.What stayed with me from our chat was not anything about a better technique. But an insight that feels close to heart: How easily we offer compassion for others, but not for ourselves.Elvira points to how fear often keeps us distracted so that we don’t really look at ourselves. Over time, so much of our inner ecology gets paved over. Man
Meditation Is Not Meant to Be Done by Yourself (opens the original)
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This week’s episode is a conversation with my friend Aaron, who has been part of the Mindfulness Meditation Cohort for eight weeks this summer. We talk about what has stood out, what we are taking with us between this cohort and when we resume in September.The conversation turns to one important element, which is this idea of relationships. We come back to an often overlooked aspect of meditation, that it’s not meant to be done on our own, seen as an individual task, something that we do almost
Talk With Your Parts (Not Just Name Them) (opens the original)
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Last week I walked with questions from the inside group. This week something surfaced in our outside Zoom room, and I think it belongs to everyone — inside and out, and to anyone who has been trying to pay attention to what moves in them without turning practice into performance.We were talking about the frameworks we use — parts, the ladder, neighborhoods — and someone said what a lot of us have felt but maybe hadn’t said out loud: it’s too compartmentalized. Too many perfect little boxes. We c
When a Thought Won’t Let Go — and Other Questions from Practice (opens the original)
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Handwritten questions came in this week from the meditation circle at the women’s prison.I’m answering them here without names. The same questions live outside the fence too — and for anyone listening who’s just trying to stay human.I facilitate two groups who practice alongside each other: one inside, one outside on Zoom. The women inside don’t have access to this podcast; they receive the same audio on their state-issued tablets. Outside listeners hear it here.We start with happiness on purpos
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