Mindfullness

A guided meditation suitable for those completely new to meditation, or anyone who has previously struggled with the practice.

An updated version of this track is available at https://soundcloud.com/user-996051730/your-first-meditation

Your First Meditation

Social psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional studies have long suggested what brain science is now revealing: our experiences are formed by the words and ideas we attach to them. Naming something play rather than work, or exercise rather than labor, can mean the difference between delight and drudgery, fatigue or weight loss. One of the earliest pioneers in drawing a connection between mindlessness and unhappiness, and between mindfulness and health — along with figures like Jon Kabat-Zinn and Herbert Benson — she describes mindfulness as achievable without meditation or yoga — as “the simple act of actively noticing things.”

Learn more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-langer-the-simple-act-of-noticing/6332.

[Unedited] Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness

What’s a good meditation? What kind of experiences do you have that leave you feeling satisfied with your ‘sit’? And what do you do when you meditate?

If you’re like most people, you probably set out with the intention, or hope, for a quiet mind; a mind in which thoughts slow down, or stop altogether. It’s also likely that most of the meditation instructions you’ve been exposed to encourage you to divert your attention in this way. That is, away from thoughts and perhaps towards the breath or body. 

You may also have noted that despite your best efforts to follow such instructions, and despite all your wishes, the mind stubbornly continues to remind you about just who’s really in charge, (and what you need from the supermarket).

Here then, is a refreshingly realistic meditation — one that doesn’t require you to make any effort to still or quieten the mind. Instead, you’ll be invited to welcome your thoughts, to lend them an ear, to listen to what they have to say, and to see if you can’t glean some useful information even from the most trivial, hostile and irritating amongst them.

This meditation is quite long, (35 minutes) It gives you plenty of opportunity to think, and lots of space to follow the instructions and to investigate for yourself what goes on in your mind. If you feel like you’ve had enough after 5 or 15, or 25 minutes, that’s perfectly fine. You can continue at another time.

Meditation On Thoughts

This meditation introduces a somewhat novel and unique approach to emotion; in which sadness, fear and anger are welcomed and regulated as a means to feel more centered, calm, aware and safe.

Meditation On Sadness, Fear & Anger

This is a series of six short (spot) meditations. Each of them can be done in as little as 30 to 90 seconds, or extended out to up to 5 minutes or so. When sequenced (in any order) they provide a useful template for a meditation of 10 to 20 minutes in length, and provide a useful structure for those who are just learning to guide themselves.

Because there is quite a bit of variety on offer, you'll probably find you remain quite well focused - and this can lead to fairly reliable states of calm and relatively deep relaxation.

Six Spot Sequence (Guaranteed Calm)

It was a pleasure to collab with long time friend and rave-hawk co-conspirator Ned Beckett on this one...hope you enjoy

Curated by Ned entirely from LittleBig artists. Mixed by me.

Tracklist 
1. The Field - No. No… (Kompakt)
2. Jon Hopkins - Collider (Domino)
3. Alex Smoke - Dust (R & S)
4. Simian Ghost - Echoes of Songs (Luke Abbott Remix) (Playground Music)
5. Tim Exile - 31022013 (Leisure System)
6. Holly Herndon - Chorus (RVNG Intl.)
7. Emika - 3 Hours (Ninja Tune)
8. Dopplereffekt - Gene Silencing (Leisure System)
9. Letherette - Restless (Ninja Tune)
10. Hubie Davison - Mannequin Move (Leisure System)
11. Dinos Chapman - Untitled #1 (Live In Moscow) (Vinyl Factory)
12. Wesley Matsell - Future Beacon (Border Community)
13. Clouds - Consciousness (Turbo)
14. Physical Therapy - Huminbeen (Allergy Season)
15. Jimmy Edgar - Mercurio (Ultramajic)
16. Planningtorock - Human Drama (Paula Temple Remix) (Human Level)
17. Akkord - Conveyor (Houndstooth)
18. Dadub + Retina.it - Kykeon (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
19. Clark - Superscope (Warp)
20. Stellar Om Source  - Polarity (RVNG Intl.)
21. Objekt - Agnes Demise (Objekt)
22. Kommune1 - Kronos (Leisure System)
23. LFO - Butterslut (Warp)
24. Call Super - Black Octagons (Houndstooth)
25. Laurel Halo - Chance Of Rain (Hyperdub)
26. Visionist - Snakes (Leisure System)
27. Truss - Redbrook (Prime Numbers)
28. Mouse On Mars - Spezmodia (Monkeytown)
29. Jam City - Worst Illusion (Night Slugs)
30. Slava - Better (Software)
31. Ikonika - You Won't Find It There (Hyperdub)
32. ADULT - Idle (Second Thoughts) (Ghostly)

LittleBig

LB.10 Mix

Exploration Of The Senses

TEXT033
John Beltran - Faux/Faux (Four Tet remix)
12" available soon

John Beltran - Faux (Four Tet Remix)TEXT033

- Premiered by Benji B on BBC Radio One -
iTunes → http://smarturl.it/hudmochimes

Hudson Mohawke - Chimes EP 
Out September 29th on Warp Records

A1 Chimes
A2 Brainwave
B1 King Kong Beaver
B2 Chimes (Gammer Re-Edit)

Chimes

itunes

Hudson Mohawke - Brainwave

We live in a world that is recreating itself one life and one digital connection at a time. On this landscape for which there are no maps, Seth Godin is a singular thought leader and innovator in what he describes as our post-industrial "connection economy." Rather than merely tolerate change, he says, we are all called now to rise to it. We are invited and stretched in whatever we do to be artists — to create in ways that matter to other people.

See more www.onbeing.org/program/seth-godin-on-the-art-of-noticing-and-then-creating/5000

Seth Godin — The Art of Noticing, and Then Creating

This talk was part of an online retreat over Thanksgiving weekend 2014. It is based on an article Jason Siff wrote for his monthly email released in December 2014. The article "Why Recollect" will be posted on the Skillful Meditation Project website: www.skillfulmeditation.org

Why Recollect

A passionate translator of the beauty and relevance of scientific questions, Margaret Wertheim is also wise about the limits of science to tell the whole story of the human self across history and culture. And, her Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles reveals evocative, visceral connections between high mathematics, crochet and other folk arts, and our love of the planet.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/margaretwertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science/7472

Margaret Wertheim — The Grandeur and Limits of Science

She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What Maria Popova really delivers, to hundreds of thousands of people each day, is wisdom of the old-fashioned sort, presented in new-fashioned digital ways. She cross-pollinates — between philosophy and design, physics and poetry, the intellectual and the experiential. We meet Maria Popova at 30, and explore her gleanings, thus far, on what it means to lead a good life — intellectually, creatively, and spiritually.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/maria-popova-cartographer-of-meaning-in-a-digital-age/7580

Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital World

Journalist, novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer has become one of our most eloquent explorers of what he calls the "inner world" — in himself and in the 21st Century world at large. He travels the globe from Ethiopia to North Korea and lives in Japan. But he also experiences a remote Benedictine hermitage as his second home, retreating there many times each year. In this intimate conversation, we explore the discoveries he's making and his practice of "the art of stillness.”

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/pico-iyer-the-art-of-stillness/7615


Pico Iyer — The Art of Stillness

This is part two of the same webinar in November 2016

Mindfullness

Jeromiah