My problem with meditation.

[@Chickarina1]

What I really appreciate is that your messages change as you become more informed. Sharing your thoughts with all of us helps to open a dialog. You are so open to learning that you are honest about why you are changing what you may have said in the past. So I thank you. Thank you for listening to what others with different experiences are saying. Much respect George.

[@George-Thompson]

Thank you for the kind words and much respect for you as well 🫶

[@AlexLawngtv]

I had a long talk the other day with someone that said meditation would never be for them because of trauma. You bring up a few of the thoughts that i've been sitting with on the topic. I'm finding the use of a flow state in an activity can help. Ultimately, when someone is ready to let go of self, then they can heal. Some people that seems to scare so much, they avoid moving on. Letting go is the greatest gift of love we can give ourselves. Watching your journey as you've come back from the monastery and taken on the day to day has been enlightening for me. Helped me feel less frustrated at myself when i catch myself grappling onto the riverbanks. Keep being genuine. Thank you for taking us along for you're way on the path. :)

[@George-Thompson]

Best wishes on your journey and thank you for the kind words 🙏

[@elizabethroberts676]

You look so happy and relaxed George - lots of fun, wisdom and humour in your teaching - thank you and thanks to master Gu - he is a cool customer! xxx

[@George-Thompson]

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[@RalphieRoper]

Thank you, George!

[@George-Thompson]

Thanks for watching, Ralph! 🙏

[@e.araujo4185]

George you are the best! Thank you for doing what it takes to make a difference ✨️

[@George-Thompson]

Thank you for the kind words 🫶

[@Silvenar13]

I have read in the book called “the untethered soul” that this trauma is stored in our hearts called samskaras (impressions from your past). And when similar experiences happen it can bring up those same feelings you have carried with you for years or a whole lifetime. They can be both positive or negative in nature. It’s a good book to read which also has Taoism wisdom in it.

[@George-Thompson]

Thanks for sharing! 🙏

[@JakeDauplaise]

This is great. Thank you George. You have such a kind and compassionate heart. I believe trauma occurs within all of us, it’s universal; weather it’s a trauma in a big way or a small way. Small way being a micro trauma. To me, healing trauma is so important to any spiritual path. We have to heal it at a mind/ body and spirit level because it effects our whole being. What western medicine does with the talk therapy, is important, but there is so much more to it then that. Just talking about makes it stay within the mind. It effects our entire energy system. Healing trauma allows you to learn to have compassion and love towards oneself. Without having compassion and love towards oneself, it’s hard to have compassion and love towards others. I have had to learn to heal my microtrumas in my path, which I will say I’m still doing and it’s truly takes time. I’ve found it truly can transform your life in such big ways. I had a complete distrust with my body’s ability to heal since a young child(age 9) where I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and some other things. I had to give myself so much love and compassion to help myself heal. Using positive talk to our inner child is also very important and knowing we will be ok. We have to allow ourselves to feel this trauma with loving gentle awareness. Sometimes meditation and mindfulness is not the way like you said. There a ton of tools that can help and also great people to guide us through these intense experience. This is a great video and one that is spoken from the heart. There is unity in knowing that we’re not the only ones that suffer. We are not alone. We decide weather we ascend to enlightenment and compassion or descend to negativity and suffering. Beyond the suffering lies the true self and bliss that is within our heart. May we all be happy, peaceful, healthy and free from suffering. This is a message we all need to hear. 🙏🙏

[@George-Thompson]

Thank you for being a part of this conversation, Jake 🫶

[@patrickgoldsmith4407]

Transcending trauma starts with realizing that you have already lived past the event, You are a survivor. That known strength forms a greater self-respect that can lead to true healing.

[@George-Thompson]

Thanks for adding to the conversation Patrick 🙏

[@janetapplegate4163]

thanx

[@cassandraarnold]

What an absolutely wonderful talk. So simple in some ways, so heartfelt and offering so many ways to enter these practices in a way that makes sense for where we are now. So glad I listened to this.

[@George-Thompson]

Thanks for the kind words Cassandra! 🫶

[@TwistedViewer]

It was very nice listening to this.

[@George-Thompson]

Thank you 🫶

[@bashmah3547]

Thank you...

[@raginald7mars408]

... as a German Biochemist Ph D - I never even use such words - it is like going into a Cinema in the dark - ANYTHING becomes infinite Shocking Scene of Terror and Horror may emerge that we are unwilling to accept it takes intense Inner Strength to prepare for such encounters and even then - it may derail us when an amateur uses something - it may destroy him

[@winstonmiller9649]

Hi George. Your vid discourse on meditation really resonated with me and my own experience of practice. Further on, your reference toward trauma awareness was meaningful. You distinguished between traumatic and non traumatic was nicely differentiated.

[@George-Thompson]

Thank you Winston, appreciate you!

[@winstonmiller9649]

@@George-Thompson You're welcome George.😊🤝🏼♋🤗

[@dangor751]

Thank you for contents !🙏

[@George-Thompson]

Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@dr.florence]

lovely background.... 😃

[@George-Thompson]

Thanks Florence! My home studio appreciates the kind words 😅

[@Sync88]

Thanks George , really interesting subject, very helpful , much appreciated 🙏

[@George-Thompson]

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[@uckristi9418]

Thank you, George. Would you please remind me which book about Yin Yang you read and discussed on Wayfinders? I can't find the recording and would like to read and study it with a couple of other Wayfinders members. 😊

[@MrBboyle1]

“Cultivating the witness “ 🙏

[@George-Thompson]

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[@SpodyOdy]

Great as always 👍😎

[@George-Thompson]

Thank you! 🫶

[@yulnikita]

I'm two days into a meditation practice that actually works for me 😅 I see why it could be so addictive and the desire for nirvana. It feels like I'm able to control deregulate and connect to my body much better.

[@George-Thompson]

Congratulations on finding a meditation practice that works for you 🥳 Keep up the good work!

[@yulnikita]

@@George-Thompson That is so nice of you 💫 thank you! Hope it will be a consistent thing for me

[@santosjoaoferreira8335]

Thanks 🙏 good vibes. Clarity and good heart. What else ?

[@George-Thompson]

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[@PPitambarP]

👍🍀, beyond love too.

[@George-Thompson]

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[@Way827]

Don't you agree to always finish and collect energy at the lower Dantian when you finish Micro Cosmic Orbit Meditation?

[@PeachesCourage]

We all can get so side railed into the guilt/fear of hurry in this life Your just honest George I feel this about you a commodity that is great to be around naturally 🌄

[@George-Thompson]

Thank you for the kind words 🫶

[@chaththa85]

Thanku George! This brought me tears🥲🌹. Nice video 🙏❤️…I use ‘being a mother to the world/thoughts/emotions’ to overcome past pain n compulsions…it means to me to love whatever there is as it is…or total acceptance..or equanimity..sit with pain or compulsive thoughts n love n accept them as they arise..n thank them for visiting me n become equanimous with them n their flow..it kind of evaporates them n bring peace n tranquility to me, strangely, in return..love is the fire that burns them n evolve me 🤗💐💗…Sorry, May b it doesn’t make sense, but just thought to share my experience..also love to share this quote ’If there is love in your heart, it will guide you through your life. Love has its own intelligence. Love is a longing to include someone as a part of yourself. It is a possibility to become more than what you are, by inclusion. -Sadhguru’ 🤗🙏🌈💗…it goes for our own pain n compulsions too I think 🙏..love is ‘willingness to include’ someone or something..Namaskaram 🙏

[@George-Thompson]

Well said! Thanks for sharing! ☯️

[@Sync88]

BTW , Nice shirt

[@George-Thompson]

😅 thank you!

[@LALA_BOY2]

When are you going China ?

[@troyortego4655]

those who know don't say...

[@raginald7mars408]

those who say do not know