Welcoming Experience And Releasing Resistance
by Jen Hill
Welcoming sensations, perceptions, thoughts, images and emotions can help us change the way we relate to difficult or distressing experiences. Specifically, helping us relate to our challenging thoughts, feelings and sensations by observing them instead of relating from them by being caught up in or identified with them. The practice of welcoming what is can help us soften resistances or urges to numb, control or get rid of any part of our experience, which ultimately doesn’t help, it usually makes things worse. Welcoming can be the first step in gaining greater awareness and insight into our experiences, to better understand them and their cause and respond to them with choice and equanimity, rather than react automatically. This track was recorded during a live group meditation session. The guided meditation begins 6mins into recording (6mins talk + 28mins guided meditation) Pippa Barnes Photography
