Turning Towards the Difficult

Sitting Meditation: Turning towards the difficult:

1. Awareness of Breath and Body
2. Gently turning towards the difficult
3. Broadening into the whole of our experience. (Choiceless Awareness)

Intention - Practising awareness to the whole of our experience, cultivating equanimity
Attention - Bringing our attention to both the neutral, pleasant and the unpleasant aspects of our actual moment to moment experience
Attitude - Curiosity, Openness, Acceptance and Kindness

Allowing whatever we may currently be finding difficult or painful to simply be there…... with a soft, .. gentle. .. kindly, non—judgemental attitude……

Exploring onwards…... maybe shifting the focus of awareness to become sensitive to the pleasant dimensions of the moment…….seeking out the pleasant

And now broadening out our field of awareness to include and ‘hold’ both the neutral, unpleasant and pleasant aspects of moment by moment experience, being spacious to whatever arises.

Reviews

Such an essential teaching for times of conflict, uncertainty, discomfort. Discomfort can become pain, then anger, then hatred, and ultimately violence. Peace in the world comes from within, from teachings like this, from being with difficult emotions, in more skilled and wiser ways.

One of the best guided meditations I’ve ever experienced. Pacing, voice quality, combo of talk with silent periods, quiet background- with a powerful message, intention. Thank you!

Very grounded. Thank you.

Thank you Bodhin. Reassuring, compassionate meditation.

I appreciate this calming, grounding, and "beingness" approach. Thank you 🙏

Nice voice good practici thank you.

A nice amount of time and good cues to breathe into the difficulty, which can include physical pain.

This was a fantastic meditation. Very relaxing. Thank you 🙏

Thank-you so much. That was just what I needed today. Tone, pace and content just right.

Lovely, beautiful, accessible approach. Thank you so much🙏🏻

Relaxing and informative!

Just what I needed today. Bookmarking for regular use. Thank you and sending metta 🙏

Perfect exercise for body awareness and acceptance. Thanks so much!

A lovely meditation. Thank you.

Great. Just what I needed. Namaste

Very peaceful and effective acknowledge of experience, pleasant, unpleasant and in between. Thank you.

This helped me so much today. Thank you.

Great. Very calming. Would be great for beginners and experienced meditators.

Thank you very much for this focus on accepting what is. I appreciated the instruction on using curiosity and openness, the gentleness of the voice, and the seamless opening and closing. Very well done.