Tonglen (giving and taking) is a method for connecting with suffering — ours and that which is all around us — everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us. We begin to feel love both for ourselves and others and also we begin to take care of ourselves and others. It awakens our compassion and it also introduces us to a far larger view of reality.

Healing Through Tonglen

Thich Nhat Hanh is a master meditator. He has inspired countless people all over the world to become more mindful and to deveop deep love and compassion for themselves and others. In this episode you are guided using a powerful Mindful Breathing Technique as you honor your parents. You might want to hav some tissues handy when you do this touching, heartfelt meditation. This is part of a 7-Part Meditations with the Masters Series, Episodes 183-189.

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Episode 184 Thich Nhat Hanh Affirmations

Compassionate Mindfulness Of Emotion

This is a led meditation practice, as taught at the City Lit and the West London Buddhist Centre.

I encountered this meditation for the first time when I was finding life a little stressful, and there is no doubt that it has helped me immensely since 2007. I would heartily recommend anyone to have a go.

You could start right now, but you might like to read this introduction that Jinananda once wrote:

The first thing is to find a quality of stillness.  It is possible to move or walk with this quality of stillness, but in this practice, you can start to develop it by being physically still.  You can move during the practice, but the invitation of the practice is not to fidget. 

If you need to, you can lie down to do the practice, but if you can, you should sit up, in a chair or on the floor, either kneeling astride cushions, or if sitting cross-legged, sitting high enough on cushions so that the knees are lower than the hips. 

The aim of the practice is to cultivate a concentrated appreciative attention to our moment-by-moment experience of the breathing process. 

There are four stages, or approaches, to the practice.  Each of these stages represents a slightly different way of being aware of the breath, of being aware of in the breath.  Starting with the easiest, and working towards the stage requiring the most delicate focus of concentration. 

Mindfulness is not about closing down or cutting off our thinking, it is not an exercise in fixing or forcing the attention.  It simply provides our thinking with something to come back to when it becomes aware of what it is doing. 

We are being mindful at the very moment that we realize that our mind has been all over the place.  Coming home to the breath, we are coming home to ourselves.  Without trying to stop the mind doing what it wants to do, we are centring the mind, settling it.

You can find other meditations of Jinananda's on jonfrewin's soundcloud page.

A guided Mindfulness of Breathing meditation for beginners, by Jinananda

Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz is one of those rare people who can cross the borders of intuition, science, medicine, and mysticism. An internationally known expert in Medical Intuition and Mind-Body Medicine, she has authored and co-authored books published in 23 languages. In this episode Mona Lisa explains the dangers of some detox cleanses for some people and recommends just one specific kind.


How To Use Medical Intuition To Maximize The Power Of Detox

This the Self-Compassion Nourishing Breath Meditation in Elisha Goldstein's 6-month online mentorship program - A Course in Mindful Living. Find out more here: http://acourseinmindfulliving.com

A Course in Mindful Living

Nourishing Breath Meditation 10 Minutes

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Bringing distractions back into the beginning of the inhale. Victoria, B.C. Recorded January 17, 2017.

15 minute Guided Meditation on the Breathing Body

Body Scan (12 mins) – Rene Frey-Jennings

Body Scan (13.5 mns) – John Fletcher

Breath Meditation (9.5 mns) — Susannah Engel

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