Name: Focusing: A Guided Meditation with David Rome by Tricycle Talks in embodiment
Duration: 23 min 5 s
Description: Teacher, coach, and writer David Rome guides us through the little-known mindfulness technique of Focusing, which helps us hone in on our inner sensations and dialogue.

When do you take your hand off your heart, or do you leave it there for the rest of the session?

embodiment

Body scan 20 mins

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/24/tara-brach-reads-mary-oliver/

Excerpted from Tara Brach's lecture "Universal Faces of Love": http://traffic.libsyn.com/tarabrach/2014-02-05-Part1-Universal-Faces-of-Love-TaraBrach.mp3 

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Tara Brach reads from Mary Oliver's "Dog Songs"

Here are the meditations and introductions for day 1 of the 2015 Triratna International Urban Retreat on the theme of 'Living In The Greater Mandala'.

www.thebuddhistcentre.com/urbanretreat

This set comprises:

01 Kamalashila introducing and leading through the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation practice. Suitable for those new to meditation.

02 Rijumitra introducing the Brahma Vicars series of Buddhist meditation practices. These are: the Metta Bhavana (Cultivation of Loving Kindness), the Karuna Bhavana (Cultivation of Compassion in response to suffering), the Mudita Bhavana (Cultivation of Sympathetic Joy with others), Upekkha Bhavana (Cultivation of Equanimity).

03 Rijumitra introducing the first of the Brahma Viharas series of Buddhist meditations - the Metta Bhavana (Cultivation of Loving Kindness).

04 Tejananda introducing and leads through a Just Sitting meditation practice.

Recorded for the Triratna International Urban Retreat 2015 at Vajraloka Retreat Centre, Wales.

Tejananda - Guided Just Sitting Meditation Practice

20 min irest Yoga Nidra practice recorded and developed by Dr. Richard Miller Ph.D. www.irestus.com

20 Min IRest Yoga Nidra Richard Miller

Kabat-Zinn makes it clear that the essence of meditative practice lies in how one lives one's life from moment to moment, in all its aspects and relationships, and not merely in formal meditative practices. This program offers an experience of mindfulness that is entirely congruent with our lives in the 21st Century: it is effective, portable, and easily adopted -- a perfect antidote to life in the fast lane. The full download and CE credits are available at https://www.betterlisten.com/collections/continuing-education-credits/products/mindfulness-meditation-in-everyday-life-exercises-and-meditations

Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

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In this short exercise, I walk you through yielding and letting go. While I don't emphasize breath in this short recording, it is one of the main tools, together with your body attention. Future recordings will solely emphasize breath.

Enjoy and let me know what works! 

Next exercise will include yielding with emotions and thoughts.

Yield And Ground

In this very basic exercise, we let go of our toes! So often, as we move through life, we grip. We grip with our toes and we grip with our minds. As you go through this simple exercise, you may notice your mind shifting, quieting, clearing. Rather than approach it directly through our thoughts, we do it by letting go of our toes!

Uncurl your toes and quiet your mind.

Uncurl Your Toes, Quiet Your Mind

The muscles between our ribs is a place we often contract to control: to control our emotions, our fears and the circumstances around us. As we learn to breathe to our ribs, actively, we open space inside of us from the inside out. 

We increase our capacity to feel and experience life in the simplest of ways, with our breath.

Creating Space ~ Breathe To Your Ribs

Tara Brach Compassion Meditation

There are so many moments in life where we contract our chest rather than expand and allow different emotions and sensations to flow. In this recording, we'll practice 3 different breathing exercises, which aim to expand your chest and increase your connection to it.

* Breathe to lungs, while softening chest muscles
*Square breathing - inhale, hold, exhale, hold - all equal timing
*Breathing with sound - exhaling "ahh" sound, while softening chest and throat.

Breathe And Expand Your Chest

Teacher, coach, and writer David Rome guides us through the little-known mindfulness technique of Focusing, which helps us hone in on our inner sensations and dialogue.

Focusing: A Guided Meditation with David Rome

Sharon Salzberg offered this Guided Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation — Sending metta to people we feel neutral towards as well as those we have difficult feelings towards — to a room full of people at an Insight Meditation Society retreat.

Guided Lovingkindness Meditation from Sharon Salzberg

We can often forgive from our minds, and yet our bodies still old onto the hurt. Then it gets easily triggered over and over, and we again have to reframe things.

In this practice, I lead you through how you hold onto a grudge or an old hurt in your body, how to let go and then use your breath to forgive. 

I am not searching for forgiveness as a moral high ground. Rather, using this practice as a way to clear space in your heart and heal an old wound.

Forgiving - A Body Practice

Many of us struggle to silence our inner critic on a daily basis. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, that’s because we are living in a “trance of unworthiness,” and are addicted to self-judgment. Tara is the the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C., a best-selling author, and a clinical psychologist who has been at the forefront of blending Buddhist meditation and therapeutic methods. She is perhaps best known for her teachings on RAIN, an acronym that stands for Recognize, Acceptance, Investigation, and Nurturing, and that describes a method for applying mindfulness to difficult emotions. In her new book, Radical Compassion, she focuses on using RAIN to cultivate compassion—beginning with compassion for ourselves.

Tara Brach: Radical Compassion

Embodied Awareness Meditation from Sebene Selassie

Embodied Awareness Meditation

M2.0 Week 4 – Meditation On Loving Kindness & Compassion (18 mns) – Lea Godfrey

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