Name: Back To The Body by Natural Meditation podcast
Duration: 35 min 23 s
Description: For Western Meditators it is important to bring awareness back to the body, to shift form disembodiment to embodiment. Otherwise your practice just stays in the head and has little impact on how you live your life. Stephan Pende talks on the importance of embodiment and leads a meditation.

valance para la mente y refrescante como un manantial espiritual de sabiduria mental

The breath can be the resting point you return to during daily life. Stephan Pende guides a gentle breathing meditation which helps you to find a peaceful place in the midst of your experience. 

Resting In The Breath

Allowing is effortless, but it takes effort to not allow this moment. For this moment is already present, already perfectly what it is. In the vastness of your own heart even resistance is allowed. 

Allowing this moment to be what it is

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

So who are you? You are not objects out there, you are not feelings, you are not thoughts - you are effortlessly aware of all those, so you are not those. Who or what are you? 
You have feelings, but you are  not those feelings. Who are you?  But then people usually make a big mistake. They think that if they rest in the Witness, they are going to see something or feel something - something really neat and special. But you won't see anything. If you see something, that is just another object - another feeling, another thought, another sensation, another image. But those are all objects; those are what you are not. 


Awareness recognizing Awareness

For Western Meditators it is important to bring awareness back to the body, to shift form disembodiment to embodiment. Otherwise your practice just stays in the head and has little impact on how you live your life. Stephan Pende talks on the importance of embodiment and leads a meditation. 

Back To The Body

Gratefulness is a felt sense of wonder, thankfulness, and appreciation for life. Emerging research has recently started to draw attention to its multiple benefits.  People who are  grateful have been found to be relatively happier, more energetic, and more hopeful and to report experiencing more frequent positive emotions. Stephan Pende guides you into a gratefulness meditation using a simple mantra.  

Developing Gratefulness with a mantra

This guided meditation is an invitation for you to experience deep relaxation, to find peace in doing nothing. Just tune in to the incredible feeling of stillness within you.
Within the movements of your thoughts, there is a still point. A point that is completely still  and which has nothing to do with whatever is happening around you. Becoming aware of this  ever present peace is the ultimate medicine. 

Resting In Natural Peace

When you attentively look into stillness you find greater stillness. Look clearly into the greater stillness to find greater stillness yet. Continue to easily yet attentively look into greater and greater stillness. If your awareness shifts to thoughts, return again to stillness and greater stillness. 

Pointers to stillness

From birth, and throughout every moment of your life, being is a quiet background presence that’s always with you but that can go unnoticed until it’s directly pointed out. Take a few moments now to feel back through your life and notice how the feeling of being has always been with you. To realize that you are Being is freedom.

Wholeness through Just Being

Guided Body-scan to gently slide into a deep relaxation, connecting with the natural peace of your mind. 

Compassionate Body-Scan

Instructions about connecting with nondual awareness while being in a public place. 

Connecting with nondual awareness in a public space

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

Back To The Body

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