2: Video Lesson: Carrying Mindfulness into Daily Life
In this lesson, we talk about carrying the concentration and awareness we’ve been working on in our sitting meditation … into the rest of our lives.
1: Video Lesson: Developing an Openness to What Arises
In this lesson, I talk about how to deal with what comes up for you as you meditate: try to refrain from criticizing yourself about how you practice and what arises. Instead, try to be friendly with yourself and whatever comes up.
4: Meditation Obstacles & Suggestions
If all is going well, you’ve meditated a bunch of times this month. Great! But likely one or more things have gotten in your way, either stopping you from meditating or causing you frustration when you do meditate. Let’s take a moment to address those obstacles, with my own recommendations and some from your fellow […]
3: Working With What You Find in Meditation
When you meditate and try to keep your attention on your breath … your mind will notice things. When you notice things going on in your mind, these are things you can work with. They are things that are actually occurring all day long, in your head, but you notice them more when you’re meditating. […]
2: Video Lesson: The Attitude of Staying Present
In this lesson, I talk about what approach you might take once you start meditating on your breath. The attitude is fairly simple: stay present with what is here, right now.
1: Video Lesson: The Breath
In this lesson, I go over the basic technique of following and counting the breath that you should use in your mediation sessions during this entire course. I also give an advanced breath meditation technique at the end for advanced members.
4: Answers to 25 Meditation Questions
By now you have probably been meditating a bit … if not, see the answers below about forgetting and traveling, which seem to be the two biggest obstacles to meditating each day. If you’ve been meditating, you probably have some questions. Below, I answer as many of the questions you guys submitted as I can. […]
3: Remembering to Meditate
So we’re a week into this module, and you might have missed a day or two already. Why? Because remembering to meditate is one of the hardest obstacles early on. People don’t meditate because they forget. And that’s a normal thing, but definitely solvable. Here are some ideas you can implement right now, so you […]