Episode 5: Meditation Mondays with Barbara Chutroo
Barbara’s Lesson 5: We don't know if there's a greater kind of invisible community that we can plug into, but having a sense of support from the universe can be very helpful.
In today's meditation, I wanted to focus on having a sense of being in community, having the support of the community. I'm not going to push my belief on anybody else that there's a larger community than this physical presence or the world. And we don't know if there's a greater kind of invisible community that we can plug into, but having a sense of support from the universe can be very helpful. Whether you believe it or not, make it up. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
Your skin is permeable. Molecules enter into the skin and enter into your body, and molecules of your body can leave. So we live in this permeable membrane that surrounds and contains us. That permeable membrane is what enables us to be and feel a part of the larger world.
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.
