Q: Dealing With The Endlessly Critical Voice In My Head

(approx. 11 minutes) KEYWORDS: Q: "I have been keeping up the suggested '15 minutes of non-judgmental awareness practice' and am disconcerted to find an apparently endlessly critical voice in my head. I see where it comes from and how strong it is on sin and guilt, and how weak it is on forgiveness. I understand all too clearly what you mean by unacknowledged dukkha. How to proceed? If you have any more good advice, I will be glad to hear it." Compulsive controlling, unreceived, smoke, fire, indoctrination, knowing not-knowing, anger, counter design, spiritual faculties, heart language, head language, nebulous fear, reintegrated.

Q: Freeing Up Chronic Controlling

(approx. 10 minutes) Keywords: “I can’t just watch the breath but instead control it.” Balance, controlling feelings, coping strategies, effort, concentration, mindfulness, whole-body meditation, denied dukkha backlog, here and now, compulsive judging, discriminative intelligence, ‘you shouldn’t be this way’, no judging the judging mind, aligning meditation, Ajahn Sumedho’s Sound of Silence, wanting.