Taking the Wrong Medicine Shinzen often talks about the temptation to do what’s easy or comes naturally. He calls it, “taking the wrong medicine.” If for example you prefer guided
Use What Arises Earlier on this blog (and in the book Make Every Move a Meditation) you learned a wider variety of awareness techniques and another splendid thing about meditation
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
Scanning Other Senses In addition to the felt or “touch” sense, you can scan other senses: sight, smell, sound, or taste. If you have chosen the visual field as your
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
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