Name: Celebrating Life By Contemplating Death by Natural Meditation podcast in Guided Meditations
Duration: 21 min 32 s
Description: Making death your friend to awake to your life. Contemplating death is a powerful pointer to what is really important. Celebrate your life by remembering death.

Stephan Pende guides gentle meditations to open your heart and settle into the peace of the present moment

Guided Meditations

Since birth until today you are surrounded by the kindness and care of other people. In this Meditation you connect with that radiance of care so you can relax into the natural openness of your heart.

Connecting with the kindness around you

A guided meditation into the present moment for to be used in a busy life. Take a rest of 5 minutes and do nothing. Connect with the natural peace in your own heart.

Pause, Relax And Open - 5 Minutes of just being

In this meditation you are invited to connect with the warmth of a friendship and from there your are gently guided to a place of radical self-acceptance. From resting in the open heart sharing your love happens naturally and without effort.

May I be happy

Could you allow yourself to find a place of rest in the middle of your experience? Just being yourself is all what is needed to be content. Stephan Pende guides you in this short Meditation to a place of peace in the midst of a busy day. 

Just Being Yourself

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

Making death your friend to awake to your life. Contemplating death is a powerful pointer to what is really important. Celebrate your life by remembering death. 

Celebrating Life By Contemplating Death

20 minute guided meditation / iRest Yoga Nidra for Inner Strength.
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IRest Yoga Nidra / Guided Meditation for Inner Strength

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

Расширение круга любящей доброты

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

Nothing needs to be refused. Let the breath travel the body without picking up speed. The clouds of thought haul across the sky. Let them come and go. Let the breath move the way blood moves: let it find its own rhythm. Recorded 2017.

20 min. Guided Meditation: Feeling the Sensations of the Body

When you are mindful, loving awareness offers you practical and revolutionary gifts of freedom. Spirit Rock Monday Night Dharma Talk: 5/7/18

SR Monday and Wednesday Talks http://www.spiritrock.org/

Mindful Loving Awareness - Part 1 - The Three Gates to Freedom - Jack Kornfield

A guided meditation into the present moment, connecting with the primordial peace of your own being. Just being here, now, in a place where you have everything you need. 

Resting in timeless presence

mPEAK 10-Min Inner Compassionate Coach Meditation by Corrie Falcon

Your spacious mind is the natural awareness that knows and accommodates everything. My meditation teacher in the forests of Thailand, Ajahn Chah, called it “the One Who Knows.” He said this is the original nature of mind, the silent witness, spacious consciousness. His instructions were simple: become witness to it all, the person with perspective, the One Who Knows. - Jack Kornfield

The One who knows - Part 1

Rely on Silence - Part 12

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.

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