Tag: calm

Cosy Disinterest

YouTube | alternate | audio only (32:56)

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Fully give yourself permission to relax. Allow all of what arises to pass by like clouds in the sky. This guided meditation provides instructions on skilfully ignoring all content that arises by gently bringing attention to a sensation in the present. By keeping close to the present moment, experience simplifies and settles, allowing a sense of well-being to grow. This is a great practice to come back to in times of turbulence or busyness in order to drop into relaxation.

The Body is Space

YouTube | alternate | audio only (31:33)​

The body itself is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. You can find a sense of freedom and refuge in the body through tuning in to spaciousness that arises within the body. This practice explores ways of opening to a wide-open, vast, spacious awareness. First you will allow the body to settle by connecting with the breath and then expanding to include the whole body in awareness. From here you can tune into the shifting, changing, flowing, impermanent sense of the body sensations, noticing how the body is open, empty, transparent, and light. Tuning in to the sense of space in the body, you can open to this sense of lightness and openness, and then opening to the sense of a vast, spacious awareness that holds the whole body, and all of experience, bringing tremendous relief.

Thoughts and the Thinking Process

This 26 minute guided meditation that explores one way of seeing thoughts and the thinking process. This is an insight practice that is intended to increase clarity of this specific part of experience. Here we look at how thoughts often appear as either mental images or mental talk, finding where they are located in space and the felt sense of experiencing these different kinds of thoughts. We are unconcerned with their content, seeing them as a process of the mind that doesn’t need to be stopped or controlled but instead can just be allowed to happen without pushing away or holding on.

Version 1 – 26 minutes. this meditation doesn’t include any śamatha/samadhi/concentration practice, so you may want to add this yourself at the beginning.

Version 2 – 40 minutes. This is a longer version of the Thinking Process meditation that includes śamatha practice at the beginning.