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Phillip Moffitt: Working with Difficult Emotions

by | May 12, 2011 | Autism/Disability, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Nashville! | 4 comments

"Can you feel joy amid pain? I say: Yes. Definition of bittersweet." —May 5 at 9:45am tweet via HootSuite –LeisaHammett

Phillip Moffitt, former entrepreneur turned Esquire magazine owner and editor-in-chief turned spiritual teacher spoke at Nashville's Scarritt Bennett Center to our Vanderbilt Mindfulness Meditation Group last fall. I've since received his weekly e-mailings, "A Year of Dancing with Life," taken from his book, Dancing with Life. Our meditation co-leader Gordon Peerman, D. Min., a psychotherapist and Episcopal priest, with degrees from Yale and Vanderbilt universities, is a student of Moffitt's. I love the title of of Peerman's book because it's 10 words contain premise of Universalism and also another path when life's road becomes extra winding: Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn From Buddhists About Suffering.

Join me, in "Being Present" to what Life offers up. Namaste:
 
Please note the Vanderbilt Mindfulness Meditation Group now meets at Second Presbyterian. Same time.

4 Comments

  1. Craig
    Craig on 05.15.11 at 9:02:23 am

    Hate to get “Christian-y” on you Leisa – but “joy amid pain” – been kinda my specialty. Never waste pain – that’s the way I think. If it’s gonna be there – and it will be – it’s a broken world – make use of it. He is right – this guy – being mindful of pain is crucial – suppressing is hardly ever good. Anger is not really my thing. I’m hardly ever angry. I have my weaknesses, insecurity, overconfidence or lack of same, the list is long – but anger – not one of them. Thank you for this today – I hearted it lots – his words were OK – I heart your words much more :)– and God Bless and keep you and all of yours Leisa.

  2. Craig
    Craig on 05.16.11 at 12:45:36 pm

    Maybe I wasn’t clear – joy amid pain is not only possible – it’s crucial 🙂 God Bless.

  3. Leisa A. Hammett
    Leisa A. Hammett on 05.16.11 at 2:50:33 pm

    It does “help the medicine go down!”