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Steps to Guide Your Meditation Practice

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Tips for Success

  • Meditating regularly in the same location will help build energetic support for your meditation practice.
  • Remember that meditation practice is, just that, practice. It is a learned skill.  Enter meditation with an intention to still and quiet the mind, but be accepting of what presents.
  • Use your breath cycle to calm and align your physical, emotional, and mental bodies. As time goes on and you become a more effective meditator, you can use this meditative breathing in times of stress or upset to achieve calm.
  • Accept and be gentle with the intrusion of the monkey mind – those chattering thoughts. Acknowledge the thoughts that present, but gently let them fade and continue to return the to your quiet state of mind. You will find, with practice, that place of no thought will gradually lengthen.
  • Begin small. 6 minutes once or twice daily is generally a good start. Gradually increase your time as you become more comfortable with your practice. A good goal is to be comfortable with 20 minute meditation sessions.

Awakening the Mind

A meditation with Alan Watts, philosopher, writer, and interpreter of Eastern Philosophy.

The Sounds, the Thoughts, the Breath. A meditative experience of creating your world.

  • Close your eyes
  • Allow yourself to hear all the sounds that are going on around you
  • Don’t try to identify the sounds that you hear. Let your ears hear whatever they want to hear. Don’t try to name the sounds.
  • Listen to the sound of my voice as if it were part of the noise around you. Don’t try to make sense of my words. Your brain will take care of it by just listening to the sound.
  • As thoughts come inside your head, you listen to them just as you would the noises that you hear from the outside world.
  • As you do this, you will find that the outside world and the inside world begin to come together.
  • Feel the movement of your breath. Allow it to run just as it wills.
  • Watch your breath breathing the way it wants to breathe. It is something that you are doing voluntarily, but you should also notice that when you are not thinking about it, it goes on just the same.
  • You are breathing – doing it, but it is also something that is happening to you.
  • Everything that is happening to you and you are doing everything. In this way, you are creating the world.