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Use 2-5 minute meditations to support your mind’s natural capacity to rest

What you will learn

This course will help you: take a beginning meditation practice to the next level by focusing on the ability to focus the mind & the capacity for compassion

Integrate meditation practice into daily life

Notice when you’re feeling stressed-out and use specific techniques to get centered again

Meditate at home, at work, in line at the grocery store, or anywhere else!

Remember the qualities (internal and external) that support a meditation practice and cultivate them over time


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Offer yourself warmth and compassion, even during stressful situations

Description

This course will take a beginning meditator–someone with a little experience already who wants to take their practice to the next level–deeper into the ancient practice of meditation, optimized for modern life.  And it offers intermediate mediators a chance to cultivate one of the key skills in meditation practice: the ability to rest the mind on an object.  This course offers guided meditations using imagery, focus on the breath and sensations of the body, and the cultivation of an open heart to help students strengthen their ability to rest the mind.  

We’ll use imagery and imagination to accept the support of the earth for the body and to feel the support our body offers.  Through those, our mind receives support to rest naturally at ease.  And we’ll grow our capacity for compassion (especially toward ourselves) as the basis for our practice.  

To cultivate these mental states of ease and compassion, there are video lectures about the theory behind what we’re doing; 15-20 minute guided meditations, designed for you to use in a formal, seated practice; and very short meditations of two to five minutes to help integrate meditation and awareness into your daily life.  Most of the actual instruction in this course is in the guided meditations, so there are more audio resources than video lectures.

As you work through this course, you’ll train in techniques that can enhance your sense of well-being, decrease your emotional (and even physiological) reactivity, and develop your capacity for sustaining focused attention.

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Content

Welcome to this course!

Introduction to Supports for Your Practice
How to sit on the floor in comfort
Standing stretches
Stretches done lying down

The heart of the practice: kindness and the three supports

Suffusing your practice with kindness
First support: The earth
Second support: The body’s natural stillness
Third support: The mind’s natural capacity to rest

The onward journey: Some helpful resources to sustain your practice

Bon voyage!