Meditation: Scanning the Body The most common scan technique is the “body scan.” A body scan uses the felt sense of touch. Often a guided meditation, you move the attention
Scanning Meditation Scanning meditation is an advanced awareness technique. In Chapter Two of Make Every Move a Meditation, “How to Meditate While You Move,” I set out the fourth step
How to meditate on thought when your mental health is a challenge People with mental health challenges have extra wrinkles in the thinking process, but they can still meditate on
More “thoughts” about meditating on thought: planning, remembering, and worry When I suggested staying in the moment to a good friend who is quite the planner, a self-proclaimed control freak, she
How to meditate on thought Just how do you meditate on thought? Even though our goal in meditation is to be in the present moment and accept it exactly as
Two Types of Thoughts Before we explore techniques for using thoughts as the object of meditation, let’s talk about the two types of thoughts: auditory and visual. Auditory thoughts are
