Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 1
Presenter:
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn
Time:
10:11
Summary
Now with this four-part home training course, Jon Kabat-Zinn offers listeners the definitive mindfulness meditation practice on CD. We are not trying to actively achieve a state of deep relaxation—or any other state for that matter—while practicing mindfulness, he teaches. But interestingly, by opening to an awareness of how things actually are in the present moment, we often taste very deep states of relaxation and well-being of both body and mind.
Transcript
Coming to this period of sitting meditation practice with the firm intention to bring mindfulness and discernment to each moment, sitting in a posture which, for you, in this moment, embodies feelings of dignity and self reliance and wakefulness, stillness and stability, and when you're ready, bringing your attention to settle on the breath as you feel it flowing in and out of your body, focusing on feeling your belly as it expands gently on the in breath and recedes gently on the out breath, or on the feeling of the air flowing past your nostrils, or on being in touch with your breathing, wherever you find it most vivid you and just keeping your attention on the breath for the full duration of each in breath and the full duration of each out breath, riding the waves of your own breathing as a raft would ride up and down on the waves at the seashore.