Skillful Means Podcast
Skillful Means Podcast offers practical wisdom for everyday life. Host Jennifer O'Sullivan explores navigating life's challenges through the lenses of Buddhist mindfulness, yoga, Internal Family Systems, and positive psychology.
Each month, episodes feature grounded guidance and accessible practices for meeting whatever arises with greater ease.
Jennifer is a Certified IFS Practitioner with over 20 years of experience teaching yoga and mindfulness.
Skillful Means Podcast
#68 Can Sutra 2.33 help us overcome negativity? Or not?
In this month's discussion, Annie and Jen unpack sutra 2.33 from "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali." When negative thoughts arise, this sutra advises that we cultivate the opposite.
Is Patanjali advocating for spiritual bypassing? Or is this an early form of cognitive behavior therapy?
And how might more modern interpretations of this sutra be used to inadvertently cause harm?
Mentioned in this episode:
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali translation and commentary by Alistair Shearer
Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Sally Miller's Instagram post on Yin Yoga and Anti-racism
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