So Special/So Wounded: Navigating Our Hopes & Fears

We all tend to seek out and hope for gain, status, praise, and pleasure, and resist or fear loss, disgrace, blame, and pain – even though all are inescapable, and visit each of us in different forms throughout our lives. And how we relate to these hopes and fears – often called the 8 Worldly Winds – often dictates how we experience our entire world. This talk explores how our meditation practice can help us to pay closer attention to these various winds so that we can learn how to better allow them to rise and pass without clinging so tightly to them, and therefore, discover more freedom and ease in our lives. It includes a meditation at the end.

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So Special/So Wounded: Navigating Our Hopes & Fears is an episode from Shell Fischer's Podcast by Mindful Shenandoah Valley.

This episode is 50:28 long.

This episode was published on May 24, 2025.

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