A SAFE HOME

Guided meditation with Jeanette Lykkegaard

audio file · 20 minutes

Jeanette, who guides this meditation, is an anthropologist.
She takes as her starting point a research project she has participated in, where different groups of people's views on home have been examined.
The anthropologists have asked very different groups. But the word security recurs in the answers. Being at home, feeling at home, has something to do with feeling safe.

Anthropologists ask questions – to understand ourselves. But also questions that can give us, who are asked the question, the opportunity to understand ourselves.
Jeanette asks here, while pointing us inward, whether we are safe right now. And if not: What is standing in the way?.

Understanding people means noticing how different we are – but also noticing how much we resemble each other. How our need for security across all borders connects all cultures.
This meditation also opens a completely inconspicuous and of course door towards this transnational sense of community.

 

Photo: Charlotte Toft

 

Jeanette Lykkegaard

is an anthropologist PhD at Aarhus University, where she teaches, supervises and researches. With her professional background, she brings a perspective on the many ways we humans try to live meaningfully – in relationships, work, body and inner life.

She is an MBSR teacher and teaches mindfulness training, is a supervisor and leads reading groups on the course. Inner practice and working life, and has for many years combined academic work with a personal meditation practice

Jeanette is part of Kontemplation's daily life and practice.
She has broad and multifaceted responsibility in daily operations and a unifying role across courses, retreats and platforms, with a focus on well-being, collaboration and communication.

She has been a regular retreat participant for many years and has been involved in Kontemplation since 2015.

8 Comments

  1. Charlotte Lønberg on 17. January 2025 at 12:28

    Dear Jeanette
    Thank you so much for your moving guidance. It put all my “homes” – small and large – into perspective… they are all equally important… And last but not least, thank you for your great generosity for a wonderful start to the year.
    Warmest New Year's greetings
    Charlotte Lønberg

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    • Jeanette Lykkegård on 17. January 2025 at 21:14

      Dear Charlotte,

      Thank you very much for sharing your experience with the January practice and the nuances of HOME. It brings us a lot of joy and increases the meaning when we feel a community of practice through feedback like yours. Thank you for practicing with us.

      Warm regards,
      Jeanette

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    • Hanne Elja on 22. November 2025 at 08:15

      Thank you Jeanette. What a rewarding meditation it was, where home for me became even more expanded and in gratitude ❣️

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      • Jeanette Lykkegård on 22. November 2025 at 16:08

        Dear Hanne,
        It is a joy to read your words, thank you for sharing it with us.
        Warm regards
        Jeanette

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  2. Linda on 10. January 2025 at 12:11

    Thank you dear Jeanette for your calm and reflective guidance, which both brought me to new places and home to myself ❤️
    Kind regards
    Linda
    Staff troop

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    • Jeanette Lykkegård on 10. January 2025 at 23:24

      Dear Linda,

      Thank you very much for telling us this. We are glad you are practicing with us.
      And I personally look forward to us sitting together physically and practicing again.

      Kind regards
      Jeanette

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  3. Kaja Storeide on 10. January 2025 at 11:43

    THANK YOU for this neat and eye-opening meditation. It brought to mind a picture from the book "The Hunter's Heart" by Laurens Van der Post. On his trek through the Kalahari desert together with the nomadic people who live in the desert, he is invited to a woman's home one night as they camp. When he arrives she stands by the little pit she has made in the sand and welcomes him; welcome to my place, she says.
    Reading this, several decades ago, touched me deeply, and stuck in my soul like a vision of home. During the meditation, the image of the small hole in the desert sand transformed itself into a hole in the heart; heart pit…. Home is having a space in the heart, just big enough to be able to welcome another, to be able to receive a stranger, or the stranger, also in myself, with kindness and hospitality. Welcome to my place.
    🙏

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    • Jeanette Lykkegård on 10. January 2025 at 23:34

      Dear Kaja,

      THANK YOU for sharing these moving words about home with us. And for drawing our attention to a book that certainly captures my interest. Your words evoke memories in me, which in turn evoke gratitude. So thank you for taking the time to share with us.
      And last but not least: Thank you for practicing with us.

      Many warm greetings,
      Jeanette

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