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Embracing Spiritual Growth: Love, Resilience, and Self-Inquiry - With Jennie Lee

Sep 10, 2024

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Jennie Lee

Jennie Lee, Nautilus Award-winning author and certified yoga therapist who leads retreats and creative residencies, shares her spiritual journey and practices. She explores choosing love over pain, cultivating a loving mindset, and using meditation and self-inquiry to build resilience. Conversations touch on humor, curiosity, and creative retreats in Italy.

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ADVICE

Catch Thoughts And Replace Them With Love

Do notice which thoughts you feed and consciously choose loving thoughts like gratitude, peace, or compassion to replace anger or bitterness.
Jennie Lee emphasizes awareness of thought patterns and deliberate repetition to shift mindset away from negativity.

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INSIGHT

Meditation As Constructive Rest For Resilience

Meditation offers constructive rest and helps you step out of mental drama to sustain growth and resilience.
Jennie Lee calls meditation foundational, a practice to rest from the 'continuous press' of self-inquiry and to build endurance.

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Build Meditation By Starting Small And Stilling The Body

Do carve out short, regular periods to sit quietly and turn the senses inward to build a meditation habit.
Jennie Lee starts clients with very short practices and emphasizes stilling the body first so the mind can settle.

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Jennie's spiritual background and daily gratitude

02:13 • 56sec

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Making love greater than pain

03:10 • 3min

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Cultivating a loving mindset

05:40 • 2min

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Resilience, endurance, and humor in growth

07:54 • 2min

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Yogananda and meditation as rest

10:11 • 2min

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Meditation practice for beginners

11:46 • 2min

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Yoga philosophy meets spiritual psychology

14:13 • 2min

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Spark Change: origin and structure

16:22 • 3min

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Questioning self-deception humorously

19:38 • 2min

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Building safety and willingness to change

21:34 • 2min

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Meditation helps sit with discomfort

24:03 • 2min

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Overcoming limiting beliefs

26:02 • 3min

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Using inquiry in couples and conversations

29:22 • 3min

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Curiosity over debate in family conflicts

31:59 • 3min

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Humor as a spiritual practice

34:55 • 2min

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Kindness and self-compassion takeaway

Breathing Love presents meditation as an active, embodied practice that informs daily life and relationships, focusing on breathwork and compassionate awareness. Jennie Lee integrates practical techniques with spiritual insights to help readers develop steadiness, emotional regulation, and deeper connection to self and others. The book encourages meditative presence during everyday moments, not only formal sitting, making spiritual practice accessible and actionable. Lee's approach highlights breathing as a primary tool for shifting emotional states and reinforcing a loving mindset. The work offers guided practices and reflections aimed at sustaining resilience and promoting conscious evolution.

True Yoga

Jennie Lee

True Yoga translates the teachings of the Yoga Sutras into practical guidance for modern life, connecting classical philosophy with daily practices that foster inner harmony. Jennie Lee draws on her experience as a yoga therapist to present sutra-based tools for emotional regulation, meditation, and ethical living. The book emphasizes integrating the yamas and niyamas—ethical guidelines from yoga philosophy—into everyday choices to enhance wellbeing. It is written for practitioners seeking both a philosophical framework and actionable practices to support spiritual growth. Lee frames these teachings as a spiritual science of living that aligns the human and spiritual selves.

Spark Change

Jennie Lee

Jennie Lee's Spark Change offers 108 probing questions organized into thematic chapters to guide readers through stages of personal and spiritual transformation. The book draws on Lee's decades of experience as a yoga therapist and spiritual coach, using inquiry to surface limiting beliefs and cultivate willingness to change. It emphasizes practical tools—setting intentions, meditation, and curiosity—to shift thought patterns and build resilience. The volume is designed for both individual reflection and shared use, such as couples working together to deepen conversation and understanding. Throughout, Lee blends classical yoga philosophy with contemporary spiritual psychology to support conscious evolution.

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Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

In 'Big Magic', Elizabeth Gilbert delves into the mysteries of creativity, encouraging readers to live more creative and fulfilling lives. The book is divided into six parts: Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Persistence, Trust, and Divinity. Gilbert argues that creativity is an essential part of human nature and that it requires courage to accept and overcome fears. She emphasizes the importance of persistence, trust in the creative process, and the need to separate creativity from the pressure of making a living. Through personal anecdotes and insights from other artists, Gilbert demystifies the creative process and inspires readers to pursue their passions with curiosity rather than fear.

In this engaging episode “Embracing Spiritual Growth: Love, Resilience, and Self Inquiry, Jennie Lee, a Nautilus Book Award-winning author of “Spark Change,” spiritual coach, and certified yoga therapist shares her journey of spiritual growth. She discusses the significance of self-inquiry and meditation in navigating life’s challenges.

Reflecting on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, she emphasizes choosing love over negative emotions and offers practical strategies like setting intentions and focusing on gratitude. The discussion delves into the practices and philosophies that support resilience, endurance, and conscious evolution, emphasizing the power of questions, curiosity, and a loving mindset to foster inner peace and personal transformation.

Jennie shares ideas on supporting others in their spiritual journey and highlights her offerings, including yoga retreats, creativity coaching, and an artist-in-residency program in Tuscany, Italy.