Guided Mindful Awareness Meditation

Through the practice of mindfulness, we cultivate an awareness that can become more and more stable and vivid, especially the more we practice with wise effort and intentionality. This awareness can be either narrow or broad, depending on the circumstances it can recognize and embrace any and all sensations within the body, including the breath sensations. Awareness recognizes and embraces seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, as well as those activities of mind we call thinking and feeling, and it can rest in a non-conceptual direct knowing of any or all of these aspects of human experience, beyond thinking, without separation or identification.

In this meditation we practice focusing our awareness on a particular point, and then broadening and expanding our awareness to take in the whole of our experience before contracting again to a single point of focus.