Being with Being

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Being with Being

Mackenzie Hawkins

14 episodes

1 week ago

In this exploration, we'll discover how to work with subtle emotional pains that may feel tied to past events and "smeared out" in time. Getting trauma-informed support for these emotions is incredibly important. Ultimately, though, each one of us is “the one” who interfaces with our own inner experiences. I personally find it helpful to do this with as much spaciousness as possible—spaciousness that can be held in the utter integrity of this whole moment. The “when” where healing happens. So...

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Episodes (14/14)

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: What's Been Hidden Can Be Held

1 week ago

1 hour 25 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Our Tender Resilience

In this exploration, we'll discover how emotional hurt and physical pain share similar patterns of bracing and disconnection. I'll guide you through gentle qigong movements to soften the heart area and explore how tenderness itself can be experienced as the refinement and sensitivity of nature’s flow itself, rather than shutting down. Through this practice, you might find how tenderness is our resilience. It allows emotional hurt to flow as part of the free flow that’s always given—as nature'...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 48 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Your Toolkit Now

In this integration exploration, you’ll practice how to guide yourself through dissolving pain using all the approaches we've learned. I'll review the toolkit of perspectives and techniques—feeling space, shifting to immersive awareness, and working with the wholeness of the moment—that you can mix and match based on what you need to be with yourself in many circumstances of pain. Through this practice, you might find your own creative ways to meet yourself where you are and work with whateve...

4 weeks ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Gentleness with the Blahs

In this exploration, we'll discover how to work with the "blahs"—those all-over, nebulous feelings of fatigue, malaise, or systemic unwellness that can be harder to locate than specific pain. I'll guide you through a gentler approach that starts with the space and sounds around your body before gradually including the whole-body sensations. Through this practice, you might discover how even through pervasive discomfort, there is underlying comfort that can be found. Some possible takeaways fr...

1 month ago

1 hour 37 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: When Pain Gets Smeared Across Time

In this exploration, we'll discover how our stories about pain in time can amplify suffering far beyond the present moment sensation. I'll guide you through experiencing how past, present, and future pain stories are all held within the wholeness of this eternal now. Through this practice, you might find how pain itself can feel lighter when we discover our time-based stories can be held differently. Some possible takeaways from today's practice: Understanding how pain gets "smeared out" in t...

1 month ago

1 hour 31 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Moving Our Headquarters

In this exploration, we'll discover how to shift from experiencing pain as a separate object to immersing ourselves directly in the experience. I'll guide you through relocating your sense of identity from your head to your heart, hands, and even into the center of pain itself. Through this practice, you might find how dissolving the separation between observer and observed allows pain to reveal itself as the flow of nature experiencing itself. Some possible takeaways from today's practice: L...

1 month ago

1 hour 31 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: From Spotlight to Sunshine

In this exploration, we'll discover how to shift from the narrow spotlight of attention that can only focus "upon" or "away from" pain to a more inclusive mode of perception. I'll guide you through understanding how feeling space between things helps us access an effortless, simultaneous awareness that can hold pain within a broader context. Through this practice, you might discover your birthright of open, inclusive awareness that was likely our default mode millions of years ago. Some possi...

1 month ago

1 hour 30 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Less Solid Than We Think

In this exploration, we'll discover how pain that seems stuck might actually be finer flows within flows—ever finer, like a fractal flowing in space. I'll guide you through feeling how however fixed pain might appear, there's no bracing or stuckness at the level of nature's flow. Through this practice, you might find something beyond pleasure or pain—a kind of vibrant togetherness, alive comfort that's subtle, delicate, and flowing. Some possible takeaways from today's practice: Discovering t...

2 months ago

1 hour 19 minutes

Being with Being

Dissolving Pain in Nature's Flow: Finding Space Around Pain

In this opening exploration, we'll discover how feeling space can fundamentally shift our mode of perception from narrow focus to open awareness. I'll guide you through Dr. Les Fehmi's revolutionary approach of feeling the space between things—starting with your fingers—to access a more inclusive way of being with pain and difficulty. Through this practice, you might find how shifting into spacious awareness naturally allows sensations to dissolve and flow rather than feeling stuck or fixed. ...

2 months ago

1 hour 34 minutes

Being with Being

Nature's Flow: Mutual and Free Flow Together - Breath and Breathing Body

In this exploration, we'll discover how the first two qualities of nature's flow arise together rather than separately. I'll guide you through feeling the free flow of breath coming down into your body and the wave-like motion of your breathing body, exploring how both freedom and connection are how nature flows together. Through this practice, you might find how the breath and body reveal themselves as flows of nature happening in space, mutually connected yet practically infinitely fine and...

2 months ago

26 minutes

Being with Being

Nature's Flow: 30-Minute Foundation - All Three Qualities Together

In this integration session, we'll weave together all three qualities of nature's flow into a complete 30-minute foundation practice. I'll guide you through 5-minute intervals that stack together—mutual flow through body and earth, free flow through breath awareness, and whole flow through hands and space. Through this foundational practice, you might discover how these qualities create a springboard for feeling resourced by your inner nature retreat and ready for further adventures into pres...

2 months ago

55 minutes

Being with Being

Nature's Flow: The Whole Flow Quality - Fingers and Hands

In this exploration, we'll discover nature's quality of whole flow through the sensitive awareness of your fingers and hands. I'll guide you through feeling the length, volume, and space that your fingers occupy, exploring how our hands can feel right there -- right here -- filling and radiating through your hands all at once. Through this practice, you might discover how the all-at-once-ness and wholeness that we see in nature is also alive in the integrity of how your immediate experience u...

2 months ago

39 minutes

Being with Being

Nature's Flow: Free Flow Quality - Breath at the Nose

In this exploration, we'll discover nature's quality of free flow through the practically infinite fineness of breath at your nose. Together we'll use gentle attention to the sensations in your nostrils, exploring how nature arises as ever finer flows within flows—never stuck, always free. I'll guide you through an open inquiry into the finest sensations you can feel, and you might discover how the free flow that we experience in the flow of air is also alive in the immediacy of your own expe...

2 months ago

23 minutes

Being with Being

Nature's Flow: Mutual Flow Quality - Shoulders, Hands & Seat

In today's exploration, we'll discover nature's quality of mutual flow by settling together into direct contact with your body and the earth. I'll guide you through gentle attention to your shoulders, hands, and seat as we explore how giving your weight to the ground and receiving its support can reveal the mutual connection that's already streaming through your experience. Through this practice, you might find yourself feeling how the wisdom of interconnection is tangibly happening in ...

2 months ago

22 minutes