Episode 4: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo
Barbara’s Lesson 4: we are not one thing because we are constantly changing
There are a lot of principles of meditation or of the practice that contains meditation. And a primary thing we do is to sit with ourselves, sit with just being with the truth of the moment without judging and finding a way to be compassionate with the truth of whatever is here in this moment.
Knowing that we're not any one thing because we are constantly changing, is at the heart of practice. We use the breath as an anchor to bring us to the present moment. And the breath is constantly changing. Nonetheless, it anchors us to the here and now.
Meet the Guests of the Episode
Barbara Chutroo
Barbara Chutroo has made use of SHARE’s services since her first diagnosis in 2015 and is eternally grateful for all the support she has received. She is a clinical social worker and movement therapist who worked with severe and persistent mental illness in the South Bronx for thirteen years. She also taught psychology and child development at NYC College of Technology. She is especially interested in the integration of body and mind, an investigation she makes use of in her meditation practice. She began to study zen as an undergraduate in 1976 and has continued since then to explore various different meditation practices. The meditation community has provided her with valuable guiding principles for her life and personal growth.
She was born and raised in New York City where she lives with her husband and two rescue cats.
