Language | Mindful Q&A With Wendy Nash #38

In this thirty-eighth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we to delve into the influence of language in meditation. Recently a podcast guest mentioned a turning point when a teacher described the breath as: oh so delicate. There's also an exercise some insight teachers do of getting into a meditative state and then reading off a list of words that are quite emotionally charged both positive and negative and then noticing the effects when dropped into meditation. (We do something like this with various words related to acceptance.) And if we can notice how impactful this is in meditation, how does that translate off the cushion? Also, how can language hinder and how can it help liberate? All this and more