Choosing To Pay Attention (A Mindfulness Practice)

The ultimate freedom, is the ability to choose; to choose where our attention goes, and the meaning we make of the moments in our lives. In this meditation we explore our ability to choose where are attention goes by exploring the dilation and contraction of our attention. Whilst being able to choose where our attention goes can be useful, it's important to not use is to simply avoid difficult emotions. We also touch on the practice of RAIN, as a model to compassionately investigate further into the habits and patterns of our mind.

Reviews

Nice meditation thanks 🙏

Amazing narrative voice

One of my favourite guided meditation teachers on insight. So good!!

the most fantastic virtual session i’ve ever had!

Lovely. Felt some echoes of Tara and Jack? Thank you - we Americans def need this right now. 🕊️🌞🙏

So helpful. Going to send this to some friends thank you!

I always love your meditations. Thank you!

Wonderful!, thank you

Well guided. Choosing where to place my attention is hard enough, but easy to practice. Choosing what story to tell myself is much more difficult. Worth practicing.

Your meditations are perfectly set out for my brain and I always feel so confident and at ease afterwards. Thank you!

That was great, I get distracted easily. It was nice to find my way back.

Thank you! I really enjoyed this.

Reset my day in just the right way. Thank you for the great track! 🙏

Awesome!

Thank you

Lovely way to start my morning. It’s so important to remember that we do have the ability to choose. Thank you for this!

Great meditation and guidance 🙏

Beautiful and amazing
Thank you

Just right

Nice voice, thank you.

Beautiful!

A lovely voice to listen to. I found this meditation calming.

Beautiful! Thank you.

Love this one.

Brilliant meditation: often times it’s about what your letting go - I liked the reverse of that in todays meditation where we are being mindful of what we are giving our attention.

Wise instructions

I found this very peaceful and relaxing and it helped me center.

Gentle and calming

Loved the message

🤍🤍🤍

Just right ✅️

I love his calming voice and the cadence and verbal cues of this meditation. Lovely way to start the day

This teacher is wonderful..

I hadn't heard of RAIN before. That "investigate" part is where I often get stuck when it comes to my anxiety. But I'm going to persist, with gentleness & kindness towards myself, until I understand the story I'm telling myself. Thank you.

I liked that a lot. You caught my attention!

Thanks for this great medidation, and also all the others that i've done so far. I feel that they are very effective. May I please do one suggestion: as a non native english speaker I am sometimes challenged with the speed of your voice 🙄 May be it is possible to slow down a little bit? 🙏 That would be great. Lisa from Switzerland/the Netherlands

Thanks Al. Nice to hear an Aussie accent too!
Michele

Very relaxing!

Good, basic mindfulness. Recommended

Very calming and helpful…..

Sweet

Thank you!

Incredible

A wonderful meditation to start my day. Thank you 🙏🏼💙🦋

Thank you, simple compassion to start each new day. Nurture oneself brings joy and a renewal.

Just right, thank you.

Very nice meditation, I will do this regularly 🙏

Thank you!!!

Great tone, pacing and instruction! Thank you

I just love your meditations, Al. I can hear the kindness in your voice and this meditation inspires me to be kind and gentle with myself.

Beautiful inspiring meditation time.
Blessings 🌸🌸🌸

Excellent! Thanks

Delightful!

Really nice meditation. I find his voice very soothing and friendly.

Very relaxing… thanks you aga8

Thank you for this pleasant meditation.

Lovely session
Thank you🙏🌻

"freedom is the ability to choose where our focus goes"

Nice! Thank you 🙏

Perfect way to start the day 🙏 thank you!

Great and helpful meditation

Perfect!

Excellent! Thank you.

I really like what you have to say. It can feel a bit quick, and a lot to keep up with when you’re also trying to settle your mind. But really nice and one of the few examples where the music accentuates rather than distracts too much from the meditation.

What an amazing meditation. Thank you

I CHOOSE to be guided by you Al, and live confidently in the space between. So grateful for your ever present light and love…

Peaceful n inspired
Thank you

Excellent

Very good

Thank you for the graciousness of this lovely practice! It really helped me shift perspectives and my energetic state quickly 💫🙏🏻

Lovely

Thank you for the reminder that I get to choose where my attention goes. Love the RAIN idea too. Thanks!

Absolutely what I needed this morning! Thank you, Thank you.

Thank you

Great advice on how to focus the mind. Namaste.

So good, calm and softly spoken. Really needed this today. Thank you

Really excellent. Very practical but a beautiful spiritual soft undertone

Such a thoughtful compilation and flow. Thank you.

Just what I needed! <3

Thank you! A grest start of thr day

Soothing and effective short practice.

I can choose what to focus on.

Brought the all of mindfulness in one short time. I will return to it again and again.
With deep gratitude.

Easy to follow! Thanks!

Great presentation

Lovely practice thank you 🙏🏻

I loved the calm logical manner and the perfect accompanying music.

Beautiful thank you Namaste

I felt very safe in your hands, beautiful...thank you 🙏🏼

Oh my soul, this was an amazing session. Thank you for the gentleness and focus of your guided meditation.

Loved the RAIN ... recognize, allow, investigate & nurture.
Thank you.

Helpful in not running
Thank you

Such a peaceful pleasant voice!

🌿Thank You🌿

Lovely words, lovely music and soothing voice. Much appreciation for the care you put into this meditation.

Really helps with my "monkey mind"

Loved it:)

Fantastic, thank you!