Advanced meditation techniques: breath and counting Improve your practice with these additional methods: advanced breath and counting techniques. Here is another way to use the breath as the object of
Mindful microhits meditation Instead of staying with an object of meditation for any sustained period of time, another option is to intensely focus on one sensation for a brief period.
Touring the senses meditation In 5-Minute Mindfulness: Walking,* Douglas Baker offers another way of working with awareness that he calls “Touring the Senses.” In his “touring the senses meditation,” Baker
Free-Floating Awareness Meditation The next mode of awareness is “free-floating.” Returning to the camera analogy, in this type of focus, point the camera at the first thing that draws your
Wide Focus Meditation Widening Focus – When I first began to run, that “wonky ankle” would swell. It rarely hurt during the run, but it ached after. I checked with
Don’t Just Write. Sit! Meditation Improves Creative Thinking and Focus I sometimes surprise my students when I ask them to try meditation during my adult writing classes. “What’s meditation
“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery.”—Cristina Istrati Self-discovery draws many writers to the page. We don’t know what we think
