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A Meditation on Absorption into Tranquility

Presenter:

Dr. Rick Hanson

Time:

33:55

Summary

Transcript

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

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So, find a posture that is comfortable and alert for you. Really okay to settle in and not skip over this step of establishing a foundation for meditation—the bodily foundation for meditation. Eyes open or closed. It's okay to meditate while walking, standing, or lying down, as well as sitting. It can help to establish your sense of place—that you're in an okay place, safe enough, familiar enough to support your sense of safe enough in the present. Finding a sense of presence, allowing thoughts and sounds

and sensations to pass through awareness, while staying present as they pass through awareness.

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