Unravel the Mysteries of the Mind
How to work with Worry☹️🧐🤨🤪

Cost: $108

Some of you know I listen the Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry Be Happy song. It is my alarm clock in the morning and I dance around to that song once a day - ok, that’s new information for you. I’ve heard that such a song is a spiritual bypass. Well, yes, it could be, but lighten up everyone, not everything is a spiritual bypass. Its only a spiritual bypass if it IS a spiritual bypass. I do not spiritually bypass anything.

As a matter of fact, I dig deeper than I should all the time, analyze everything to its primal molecules, and have had my share of pain and betrayal and ugliness in this world, just like you. This song, simple and sung by a highly talented genius of music (which I appreciate in my heart and soul) penetrates to a deep place for me. McFerrin sings of some of the deepest issues we face in our lives; relationships, loneliness, financial challenges, and simply says don’t worry be happy, and he says it is the most nonchalant way! WHAT? You have to be kidding? How can I not worry, this is impossible! These are real problems!

Yes, they are real problems. They must be attended to.

Patanjali, a yoga scholar revered for his simplicity of wisdom, teaches that one way out of worry is understanding how to work with the polarities of our world and our mind; opposites. “Have no place to lay your head, someone come a took your bed - don’t worry be happy.” Talk about working with opposites, yogi Bobby McFerrin.

In cognitive behavioral therapy and yoga philosophy, worry and ruminating thoughts that repeat over and over again are addressed directly. We do not avoid them by simply saying “see the light”, we address the shadow of our worries and fears and day by day build skills and a stronger resilience to what life brings to us. We learn to deconstruct our mental projections and find ways to be - well - happy - in difficult times. Maybe its a moment of release and rest, maybe a moment of levity, where the opposite of worry just shows up.

The happiness Bobby McFerrin is talking about is not only the opposite of sadness, it is an internal state of wisdom in the midst of the shadows and darkness we all experience. It is a tiny crack of light in the door, it is being present, it is adding humor. Humor can be a powerful healer, you can say yogis take laughter seriously.

Join us for this meditation immersion to observe and balance the opposites we feel so we can experience a bit or more of inner authority, perspective, and mental strength.