Poems, Guitar and Meditations
By Jonah Hall
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Poems, Guitar and MeditationsOct 12, 2018
On Self-Compassion (Reading Jack Kornfield and Reflections on Self-Compassion)
Self-compassion is complicated for me. I understand I must love my self before I can love anyone else. But that love is not simple and easy. Love for myself is complicated. I value certain aspects of who I am and what I bring to the relationships in my life, my work and my creative projects...but I also get stuck in negative thought cycles. I can spiral. I can ignore my own needs and then become irritable and irritating. In other words, I need more self-compassion. It's a practice. There are days I won't have enough compassion for my body, or my health, or my need for rest, or my desire for fun. There are days I will stumble through. But keeping in mind that self-compassion is a practice, I will keep reminding myself to practice it. Hope you enjoy this episode. Be kind to yourself.
The episode starts with a reading of Jack Kornfield's, called Awakening Self-Compassion. https://jackkornfield.com/self-compassion/
Readings: On Equanimity and Balance
In this episode, I read and reflect on the Buddhist concept of Equanimity. In short, equanimity is about finding balance and protecting yourself from attaching to external forces like praise and blame, fame and disrepute, pleasure and pain, or gain and loss.
Alongside the reading: sounds of a Tibetan singing bowl.
Though I will not attach to the results of putting this episode out, I will send out hopes that anyone who listens may find fleeting moments of peace, calm or balance.
For more on equanimity, check out: https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/article/cultivating-equanimity-2/
Thanks for listening,
Jonah
Weird Fishes Instrumental Guitar and other guitar tracks
Three Songs (Two Instrumentals and "We Turned Six")
1. Cascading (instrumental - amplified acoustic guitar)
2. Sunday Morning (instrumental - amplified acoustic guitar)
3. We Turned Six (keyboards and vocals)
Walking Meditation (Being Sick, Watching NBA Playoffs With Young Child, Mother's Day, Political Fears)
Walking Meditation (Being Sick, Watching NBA Playoffs With Young Child, Mother's Day, Political Fears)
Pop Covers: Steal My Sunshine by Len and 2 Original Instrumentals
Covers - Don't You Forget About Me by Simple Minds and 5 others
1. Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
2. Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
3. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
4. Horse With No Name - America
5. Shelter From the Storm- Bob Dylan
6. Steal My Sunshine - Len
Covers (Everybody Have Fun Tonight: Wang Chung...and two others
1. Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung
2. The Bottom of It by Fruit Bats
3. Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan
"Hey Hey My My" "Heart of Gold" "Long May You Run" and "Horse With No Name" Acoustic covers
"Horse With No Name."
Meditation Appointment at the Beach
Piano Loop and Other instrumentals
New Instrumental (Slow Breakfast)
20-Minute Instrumental for Relaxation and Sleep (Tongue Drum and Atmospheric Pads)
Four Covers (I Walk the Earth, I'm Set Free, Simple Twist of Fate and Speed of the Sound of Loneliness)
"I'm Set Free" by The Velvet Underground, self-titled, 1969
"Simple Twist of Fate" by Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks, 1975
"Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" by John Prine, German Afternoons. 1986
recorded by Jonah Hall, 2022
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Gravity Rides Everything, Fire It Up-Modest Mouse; Big Dipper-Built to Spill, Rudie Can't Fail-Clash
"Big Dipper" Built to Spill,
"Rudie Can't Fail" The Clash
"Cerrito Shuffle" an original song
Considering the Future with RH (Legos, Fears of Changing Voice, Growing Taller)
Walking Meditation: In the Hospital (Aging Parents, Mortality and Acceptance)
Piano Cello Atmospheric Loop for Sleep
Walking Meditation on Self-Compassion
Three Talking Heads Covers: Once in a Lifetime, Burning Down the House and Heaven
RH sings "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty
5 Covers: Radiohead "Weird Fishes" 3 Songs from My Morning Jacket and one from A.A. Bondy
Walking Meditation (Is Anyone Happy Right Now?)
Two Covers: Nick Drake "Time Has Told Me" and Fruit Bats "The Bottom of It"
Tablatale (tabla loop from sample focus with guitar and effects)
Instrumental "Cave" (breakbeats, vocals and guitars)
RH Sings: Learning to Fly
Four Covers: My Morning Jacket and Tom Petty
Instrumental Guitar tracks (Again)
Driving Meditation (Email is Hell)
Instrumental Experiments (Monday Morning, Sunday Afternoon, Kalimba Patterns)
Sunday Afternoon (Instrumental Guitar Patterns)
Three Instrumental Guitar Tracks (Compass, Sunday Morning, Galactic)
Baseball Season is Over (A Rambling Song)
Sunday Morning (Guitar instrumental)
Covers "Ventura Highway" America, Paul Simon "Me & Julio", Dylan "Mr Tambourine Man" Fruit Bats
Walking Meditation (Stray Thoughts on the Queen's Death, Forgotten Snacks, Redwoods, Kindergarten)
Three More Covers (A.A. Bondy, Velvet Underground and John Prine)
Galaxy Trance (Instrumental Guitar for Relaxation)
"I've Been Working On the Railroad" (Full Studio session with Rebelle Harmony)
Steve Mason Songs: "Dry the Rain" "Needles in My Eyes" and "I Walk the Earth"
Three Creedence Covers: Down on the Corner, Have You Ever Seen the Rain? and Fortunate Son
Walking Meditation (Mothers, Aging, Forgiveness and Memory)
Acoustic Covers (Wilco, Built to Spill, Cars, Talking Heads, The Band)
Junestrum (instrumental guitar)
Hodgepodge of songs after Gm 5 Finals Preview with 4 year-old.
Carry the Zero - Built to Spill (cover)
Poetweets, Volume 1 (Spring 2022)
An artisanal, organic, sustainably-raised batch of 12 poem-tweets, collected into one place.
To read the poems: https://darkoindex.medium.com/poetweets-volume-1-spring-2022-70ceaec3580b
Thank you for listening.