Square One Meditation

Daily Meditation for February 9. Watching too much TV or playing video games for too long is generally a way of coping. Of protecting ourselves from an emotion or feeling that causes us discomfort. The first step in mindful transformation is recognizing this with compassion. (www.nameebaijal.com)

Daily Meditation: Healing Addiction With Mindfulness

Daily Meditation for February 10. Becoming mindfully aware of our eyes and how we see; and expressing gratitude for the gift of sight. (www.nameebaijal.com)


Daily Meditation: The Gift of Sight

Daily Meditation for February 11. Rejection is one of the most hurtful human experiences. In this meditation, learn the mindful way to cope with rejection - when you feel rejected as well as when you reject someone.  (www.nameebaijal.com)

Daily Meditation: Coping With Rejection Mindfully

Simple mindful sitting is perhaps the most important meditation practice and the key to finding stillness. (www.nameebaijal.com)

Daily Meditation: Mindful Sitting Practice

The breath is always with us. Learning to rest in our breath is key to finding stillness and turning inwards. (www.nameebaijal.com)

Daily Meditation: Follow Your Breath

A brief check-in for whatever is already here, this body scan is designed to sharpen the tool of your awareness of the Now.

InsightLA Meditations 

15 minute Body Scan for MBSR

Part of a series of guided meditations and exercises taught by Senior Teacher Lisa Kring, in her popular Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) classes at InsightLA.

38 minute Body Scan Meditation

Recorded at the August 2019 Concentration Retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Dharma Teacher Beth Sternlieb offers a retreat talk, "The Craft of Samadhi," and four guided metta practices to a Dear One, the Self, a Neutral Person and To All Beings.  (The recordings of guided practices include introductory remarks on aspects of concentration practice, and the dharma.)

On Concentration: The eighth fold of the Buddha's Path, Right Concentration (Samadhi) refers to the collection and unification of the mind.  Samadhi can bring joy to your practice and lead to the skillful use of pleasure in the meditative process. Whatever your level of practice, you can improve your Insight Meditation (Vipassana) by strengthening your skill at concentration. Your ability to concentrate will develop in response to the attention you give it. This retreat offers a series of techniques for staying on the meditation object for extended periods of time. We will explore the factors of concentration that lead to the deep absorption states known as jhana. Teachers will also give instruction for utilizing concentration during insight practice.

Copyright Beth Sternlieb, posted on the InsightLA Meditation SoundCloud page at her request.  Originally published by DharmaSeed.org.  

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20190818  Spirit Rock Concentration Retreat

(42 min) Beth Sternlieb: Guided Metta Practice 02: Self-Compassion

12 short meditations for front-line health workers

How To Practice Self - Compassion With Christiane Wolf, M.D., Ph.D.

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A series of daily 10 minute meditations in the mindfulness tradition. The most important point in meditation is when you begin again. When you realize that you were lost in thought, go back to your breath and begin again - with no judgement and with compassion for yourself. That point of starting again, almost like a child, with no baggage from the past and no expectation of success. That is Square One.

Daily Meditation: Coping With Rejection Mindfully

Square One: Meditation

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