Jasmine, Thank you.

I took your class yesterday, after watching a memorial service for a departed family member who I now have some regret about not knowing more fulsomely in life, and just after your narrative about beginner's mind, I started to feel nauseous.  To be clear, the practice was not the problem, but the information I processed from the momentous event the day before.

I had the luxury to exercise sel care that day, which is the whole point.  I took to heart your narrative about beginner's mind and accepting the gifts that come, even if this gift came with nausea and throwing up.  The key is in the framing: The bugaboo to otherwise teachable moments are such sentiments as "This is inappropriate." and "Why me?" 

Absent bugaboo sentiments, my inner critic was not forced into silence but in deep quietude, witnessing, and healing.  Ahhh.  ~ Peter Ferber