Just to say thanks so much for pointing this up – I’ve listened to ‘Interconnectedness’ on the Busy People CD for the last few days – and although I’ve been an on-off meditator for years, sometimes using Buddhist meditations, sometimes others, it comes as something of a revelation that I might be able to approach a specific fear in this way.

My feelings during this particular meditation have been mainly awe and wonder, and there is a sharp feeling of grief too, a sort of desolation. It’s a very different experience from trying to confront the issue with my intellect, which seems to lead to much stronger, more unpleasant feelings of horror/fear and coldness, minus the sense of beauty and warmth.

I’d listened to that meditation several times before, but somehow hadn’t really made the connection – that it was touching on something so unresolved in me – though I did realise once that I was holding my breath while listening to it, which should have been a bit of a giveaway!

I’ll be looking out for the Six Elements practice – that sounds wonderful, though I imagine it would be a very strong experience for me at this stage.

Thank you again.