Acquiring Stillness of the Mind with Buddhist Teacher JoAnna Hardy - BHNN Guest Podcast Ep. 169

Moving through the senses, JoAnna Hardy guides listeners in a meditation to acquire stillness of the mind. In this episode, JoAnna Hardy guides us through: The benefits of having clarity and a still mind The breath-body central focus Gaining self-trust Paying attention to the sounds and sights around us without assigning meaning Working the muscle of awareness Reengaging with the breath when the mind gets busy About JoAnna Hardy: JoAnna Hardy is an insight meditation (Vipassanā) practitioner and teacher; she is on faculty at the University of Southern California, a meditation trainer at Apple Fitness+, a founding member of the Meditation Coalition, a teacher’s council member at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, a visiting retreat teacher at Insight Meditation Society, and a collaborator on many online meditation Apps and programs. Her greatest passion is to teach meditation in communities that are dedicated to seeing the truth of how racism, gender inequality and oppression go hand in hand with the compassionate action teachings in Buddhism and related perspectives to social and racial justice. “Seeing shapes, colors, shadow, light, noticing if we look at an object very simply as those shapes and colors and shadows and light, it’s very different than immediately having the idea of what they are. Just allowing seeing, just seeing of an object without a decision about it.” – JoAnna Hardy