I offer these every week along with a short teaching. Just click the subscribe link below to be notified through YouTube. When I post the recording of the latest one, or if you'd like to join me live, which I'd really welcome, go down into the description section below and follow the link along to be able to sign up for free. Settle in. And a posture that is comfortable. And also alert, perhaps with a certain quality of uprightness. Feeling grounded, perhaps tapping the floor with your feet a li
ttle to know that you're here. Hmm. And bringing in a fundamental okay ness that it's okay to be here. It's okay to be you here and now. You can let your eyes stay open or closed. You might like to orient yourself to the place you're in. To establish herself here and feel comfortable here wherever you are in this place. It's reasonably safe where you are. You can relax. You can let go. As you settle into the present. You can be aware of so many things moving through awareness, thoughts, bubbling
sensations coming forward and receding. Sounds coming in going. Desires and emotions. And all that is happening in a vast open space of awareness. In the ongoing notes and openness of being. Remaining present as experiences pass through awareness. To help yourself remain present. It's useful to stay in touch with something that's steady, like the sensations of breathing. Or awareness of your body in general. Or a word, a feeling or image of some kind. Staying in touch with you so that you're no
t carried away by any little train of thought. I like the feeling of breathing. The chest rising and falling. The abdomen expanding and contracting. Air flowing in and flowing out. Staying in touch with breathing breaths after breath for many breaths in a row helps us be aware of the ways in which the mind tends to habitually dart off in many different directions. And you can recognize that more clearly while you remain stable in touch. With breathing. In this meditation, I'd like to introduce w
hat I call the three breaths practice. It's three ways of breathing. Feel free to ignore it. So in the first sort of breath breathing while feeling your chest as a whole. Being aware of the whole chest. And even if you like your whole body as a single field of sensation, one whole field of sensation. Breathing while feeling your chest as a whole. In the second kind of breath, you're aware of sensations around your heart. Breathing while feeling caring. Keeping it simple. Gentle. Opening of the h
eart as you breathe. Getting in touch with kindness. Perhaps loving this. Perhaps. Being aware of someone you care about. Mainly focusing on the feeling breathing while feeling caring. This is breathing with a warm heart. And then in the third kind of breath, which could be more challenging, breathing while feeling cared about really keeping it simple. What does it feel like to be in settings where someone appreciates you? What's it like to be with a pet or a friend who likes you? Maybe he loves
you. If you can allow yourself to receive the fact of their caring for you, their good wishes, even if they annoy you sometimes. Can you take as your object of meditation? Feeling cared about. And you let feeling cared about thinking, do you? Can you become absorbed in the sense of being appreciated, liked or loved? And then for the remainder of this meditation, I'll be quiet and see if you can find your way in to. Remaining present. Resting in a mingling of peacefulness and loving notes. Givin
g yourself over to a growing tranquility. With a warm heart. In the present. It's.
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