Spacious Awareness As A Safe And Holding Container
by Leo Maciel
An exercise to familiarize you with Vipassana meditation or "Open Awareness" to encourage practitioners to keep their focus open and explore thoughts and sensations as they occur, without judgment. The focus here is on witnessing everything without judgement, with an open, spacious, receptive mind. For relaxation & focus, we begin with a short breathing exercise, followed by a simple body scan. Then we move away from focused attention into a more spacious and unbound spot–that unbiased place within that involves allowing bodily sensations, mental objects (thoughts, emotions, feelings, memories), and other external objects (sounds, smells) to be openly observed, acknowledged, and accepted as they are by our open, non-judgemental inner awareness; allowing them to arise, disappear, and be eventually replaced by other inner or outer objects as it naturally happens.
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