Authenticity: What is it? What Isn’t it?
July 6, 2010 | 4 CommentsI recently spoke with Ronna Detrick of RENEGADEconversations. Ronna hosts a members-only, online forum for women called A CONVERSATIONAL SPACE. Included in that space are monthly MP3s of Ronna’s conversation with women from all over the world. And this month it’s me. The MP3 of our conversation is usually exclusve to her site-members only, but by clicking here you can listen in. Enjoy!
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Hey Susan,
I’d love to hear your conversation, but the link doesn’t seem to work.
Hi Meghan. Link should work now! Thanks for letting me know about it not working. S.
Thank you for getting it up and running. I really enjoyed what you had to say about, well, everything, but what you said about people pleasing and learning to relax really spoke to me the most. As someone who has grown up a people pleaser and a searcher for solutions to problems, I realize that I have been trying to meet an end to a means with my practice of meditation and beginning study of Buddhism. What advice could you give about how to take the practice in more deeply, so that it becomes more of a “practice for practice’s sake” instead of a way to become a “better person”?
The great thing about practice is that it has its own magic. You don’t have to worry about making the practice “work.” If you are diligent and genuine, it will show you how to deepen, not the other way around. You can trust in the technique fully.