EP 94 :: Breathing can Calm :: Patty Collamer
Patty Collamer talks with Bobbi and Mike about the simple steps of putting words to one breath in and then to one breath out. In the pause between is a moment where peace and happiness can be found.
Patty is a retired teacher and became a certified yoga instructor in 2017. She is also the author of Grace on the Ledge, a memoir of her childhood growing up in the ’60s and later caring for her mother after a stroke, and Grammy’s Eyes, a children’s picture book about a family adapting to changes caused by a stroke. Her most recent book is called One Simple Breath: A Caregiver’s Guide to Inner Peace.
Patty introduces Bobbi and Mike to the four Brahmavihārās found in ancient Buddhist texts and uses her experience as a caregiver to explore the virtues of loving kindness, compassion, joy, and even-mindedness that exist in all of us.
The Brahmavihārās are a series of four Buddhist virtues and the meditation practices made to cultivate them.
“I started breathing in and put an affirmation at the top like, “I'm still here.” I breathe out and think, “I don't know how I'm going do this.” I breathe in and say, “I can't believe she said that,” and I breathe out and say, “But I'm still here.”
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