Welcome to week two of the 30 day challenge and you're on to your next meditation.
So that first week of meditation was all about you getting used to sitting in a certain way and numbing down the brain,
Reducing some of the thoughts and the way we did that was just to give you something to focus on and we focused mostly on body awareness and breath and what you should have found over that last week is that it became easier to turn the mind off and that you were noticing that during that meditation time seemed to just maybe stop or go really fast or go really slow and that you found great space and some peace inside the meditation that you're able to then carry on or carry out into the rest of the day.
That's the experience of most people and I expect it was your experience also.
So let's go on to week two.
Now what are we going to do in week two?
A little bit more of the same but our aim this week is we're going to build on this notion of numbing down or letting the thoughts go reducing our addiction to thinking and while last week it was pretty much I spoke all the time giving you things to focus on,
This week we're going to again touch a little bit on body awareness but then move into a little technique that will allow you to begin to find specifically some space within and I'm going to talk about the breath and there being a space at the top and the bottom of the breath which there is once you become aware of it,
Once you look for it and that space which will begin to find and is internal you know allow that to expand and this is again just building this notion of this spaciousness inside,
This place inside where we can find peace and nurture where our rational mind can just calm down and when that happens we will get a lot more insight that's what all the research says and that's my personal experience and the experience of people who have meditated with me over some years now.
During this meditation I'll be talking less and again it's your job to just try to focus have a single minded focus on the breath,
On the body and then on this space within and of course remember if you wander off and you think a thought and next thing you know you're off for five minutes before you realize when you do realize that's fantastic and then don't beat up on yourself rather say to yourself that was interesting and allow yourself to gently to come back to the meditation come back to observing the thoughts just as clouds floating by not owning them not immersing yourself in them just observing them and you'll be fine okay have fun with this next meditation and let's talk again at the beginning week 3.
Bye now
