Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulne...

While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting f ...  Show more

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this ...  Show more

Body scan meditation is the most effective way to begin a mindfulness meditation practice. This body scan meditation is a meditation which allows you to reconnect to your physical self with your breathing., and notice how each body part feels. By practicing this meditation helps ...  Show more

What happens when someone tells you to relax? Often, the directive to relax or let go results in further tightening. When we attempt to relax on demand, we just can’t make it happen. Stress can then increase as we wrestle with what we may perceive as failure. Things change whe ...

When connecting with our inner selves we use techniques like mindfulness, focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity, to train our attention and awareness, in order to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state. One of the primary benefits of meditati ...  Show more

In this episode, I discuss the biological mechanisms of the state changes that occur during different types of meditation and describe how to develop the meditation practice optimal for you. I explain key meditation principles, such as using specific breathwork patterns and adjus ...  Show more