Cultivating Your Attention
by Barry Boyce / Mindful Magazine/ April 2, 2019
A basic mindfulness practice for creating more harmonious circumstances for ourselves and for others, raising our awareness and stirring our curiosity. Begin practice here …
Coming Home with the Breath
by Tara Brach
Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for our attention.
Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice
by Tara Brach
Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting awareness ~ from first morning instructions at the 2015 IMCW fall retreat.
Audio (10:33-9.7 MB)
Guided Meditation: Body Scan –
Living Presence
by Tara Brach
A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations.
Audio (10:59 – 5.0 MB)
A Meditation on Anxious Emotions
by Bob Stahl
This practice involves deep investigation into the causes of anxious feelings so you can discover the story lines that trigger and drive your emotions.
Nonjudgmental Awareness
Meditation is the chance to practice giving ourselves permission to feel exactly what we feel, even when we’re not as okay as we’d like to be. A Mindfulness Practice to Cultivate Nonjudgmental Awareness
Loving Kindness Meditation
May I be filled with loving kindness.
May I be held in loving kindness.
May I feel safe and at ease.
May I feel protected from inner and outer harm.
May I be happy.
May I accept myself just as I am.
May I touch deep, natural peace.
May I know the natural joy of being alive.
May I feel true refuge within my own being.
May my heart and mind awaken; May I be free.
Forgiveness Meditation
by Mary Kullman
Meditation: Intimate Presence
by Jonathan Foust
This meditation explores what’s it’s like to be intimately present to your embodied experience in the here and now. You’ll be guided into an inquiry into effortless sensing through a body scan and through a variety of anchors.
Audio (24 minutes)
Encouraging the Departed
From Age-ing to Sage-ing by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Instead of distracting the departed with our lamentations, we can send them our blessings. By sending thoughts of love and encouragement to our loved ones, we help them expand into greater luminosity, rather than contract into fear and forgetfulness.
For example, to a person who has suffered through a long, debilitating illness, we can say …
Dear friend, I send you loving supportive thoughts for the journey ahead.
Do not be afraid: It’s a shock to drop the body, but it’s not the end of your existence.
Now that you’ve abandoned your old, worn-out body, go forward to your new life in anticipation of a pain-free, comfortable existence.
Go in trust and peace, knowing that friends and guides will appear to help you through this transition.
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