Hi! I’m Jerome Paige Kendra and the members of the BikramYogaWorks community asked me and others to post some meditations for our community as we navigate our ever-evolving “new normal. ...  This meditation runs for about 10 minutes....  In my meditation workshops, I promote meditation as a gateway to knowledge, being & action.  Meditation undergirds our ability to be resilient and to able to rebound.... The basic meditation instruction is to focus on an object. For example, our breath. When the mind wanders, we bring it back to the breath. This is the meditation. We do this over and over again for the time we allot to meditate. As we engage in this process, we begin to get an insight into where body sensations come from and where they go. We get an insight as to how they arise out of and return to our True Nature. In this meditation, our “object of meditation” is on “getting ready for a meditation.” We cover getting into a comfortable position, locating our “inner resource,” setting our intention, offering our heartfelt prayer, and practicing with intention, but without expectations.... As a result, you will have a meditation you can undertake throughout the day. You can periodically stop and tap into your inner resource, review your intentions, offer a heartfelt prayer, live with intention, but without expectations, and be with whatever arises, unfolds and passes away.

Meditating On Sankalpa Audio Only

MEDITATION AS A GATEWAY TO KNOWLEDGE, BEING & ACTION
Meditating On De-Clinging

Hi! I’m Jerome Paige.... Kendra and the members of the BikramYogaWorks community asked me and others to post some meditations for our community as we navigate our ever-evolving “new normal.” This meditation runs for about 15 minutes.

In my meditation workshops, I promote meditation as a gateway to knowledge, being & action.  For me, meditation undergirds our ability to be resilient and to be able to rebound. My approach is to use meditation to investigate the internal and external aspects of our being, and it is through this “investigation” that we detach from our mind and other senses so that we are able to experience fully the dimensions of our being.

The basic meditation instruction is to focus on an object, for example, our breath. When the mind wanders, we bring it back to the breath. This is the meditation. The object of this meditation is clinging and de-clinging. In exploring how our mind/body clings and de-clings, we get insights into our True Nature. After the session, you’ll have a meditation practice you can take with you throughout your day. You’ll be able to pause and “de-cling” your mind.

Declinging The Mind Audio Only

In this meditation session, we focus on thought and thinking.  I’m Jerome Paige, and I will be guiding you through a meditation on our positive, negative and neutral thoughts. It runs for about 30 minutes. Click on the link and listen to it, and afterward share “your thoughts” with me.

Today our body/minds are flooded with emotions. However, there’s the meditator’s claim that we can reduce the possibility of being overwhelmed by them if we can disentangle all the components of our thoughts and thinking. That is, if we “pay attention” to their arising, unfolding and subsiding and to their other qualities, we can unravel our thoughts, the objects of our thoughts, and our awareness of them. When we disentangle these components, we experience that while we have pleasant and disturbing thoughts, simultaneously, we are not them, and we are more than them. We see clearly these distinctions, and as a result, we get insights into who we truly are. We have disturbing thoughts, but we are no longer disturbed by them. Consequently, disturbing thoughts don’t disturb our behavior or us. This is the meditator’s claim. In this meditation, we fact-check this claim.

Meditating on Thoughts And Thinking -- Audio Only

In this meditation session, we focus on “dread”. Yes. “Emotions” can be objects of meditation.  I’m Jerome Paige, and I will be guiding you through a meditation on “dread.” It runs for 30 minutes. Click on the link and listen to it, and afterward share “your thoughts” with me.

As our body/minds are flooded with anticipation of worse case scenarios, there’s the meditator’s claim that we can reduce the possibility of being overwhelmed by “dread” if we can disentangle all the components that comprise this very real emotion. 

That is, if we “pay attention” to how “dread” arises, unfolds, and subsides and to its other qualities, we can unravel our emotions, the contents of them and the awareness of them. 

According to meditators. when we can disentangle the components of “dread” and keep track of them, we experience that we are not that “dread.” We also realize that we are more than it. When we make “distinctions,” we get insights into who we truly are. 

After the meditation, we will have dread-filled emotions. We are human. But based on the meditation, there’s the possibility that “dread” will not distort our behavior and keep us from responding skillfully to dreadful situations. 

This is the meditator’s claim. In this meditation, we fact-check this claim. 

Also, as we are “fact-checking that claim, keep in mind that meditation is just one tool in our kit to deal with difficult emotions. Always avail yourself to mental and physical health professionals and healers as well.

04 - 01 - 2020 Meditating On Dread Audio Only

The commercial for the supplement Prevagen™ asks the viewer the question, which is: Since you might be taking something for your heart, joints, and digestion system, why don’t you take something for the most important part of you, your brain?

Hi! I’m Jerome Paige, and I will be guiding you in a meditation that offers you something to “take for” your brain. Let me paraphrase the commercial’s closing slogan. Meditation. Healthier Brain. Calmer Mind. Better Life. Again: Meditation. Healthier Brain. Calmer Mind. Better Life.

jerpaige