Be Here Now Network Guest Podcast Ep. 41 – JoAnna Hardy - Toolkit for Being with Thoughts and Emotions
Jun 20, 2019
JoAnna Hardy, an Insight (Vipassanā) meditation teacher and Meditation Coalition co-founder, offers a toolkit for meeting thoughts and emotions with mindfulness. She discusses normalizing fear and loneliness, investigating sensations in the body, pausing the mind’s problem-solving impulse, and practical anchors like breath and contact points for staying curious and patient with inner experience.
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Emotions Are Impersonal Passing Events
- Emotions and thoughts are vibrant parts of being that aren't personal and reveal impermanence.
- JoAnna Hardy describes noticing fear, sadness, grief, loneliness and seeing them as experiences that arise and pass, reducing reactivity.
How Loneliness Drove Harmful Actions
- JoAnna Hardy shares loneliness as a driving force in her life that led to harmful behaviors.
- She investigated where loneliness lived in her body, felt emptiness and heaviness, then learned to trust and stop acting out.
Thoughts And Body Form A Feedback Loop
- The mind-body system cycles: a thought arises, moves into the body as sensation, then returns to thought, creating feedback loops.
- JoAnna compares the mind to an unknown teenager whose behavior we learn by bringing curiosity not rejection.