Calming the Mind

A meditative exercise, showing how we can radically calm the mind by paying attention to several distinct sensations connected with the breathing.

Reviews

I found the practice very helpful and found a state of absorption between mind, body and breath where they seemed to be more harmonised.

Liked the analogy of awareness of multiple sensations to a lamp versus awareness of a single sensation to a flashlight.

Another great way to immerse self increasing focus of moment..helped a lot. Thank you.

Thank you – What a lovely practice! That’s the first breathing exercise in 50 years that I think would actually calm me if I start to panic and what a lovely State it’s left me in. Much appreciated

I really enjoyed the close attention to breathing around the body in this practice. Particularly liked the idea of thoughts as "mindfulness bells".

This would work well as a grounding exercise when thoughts and feelings are running amuck.

Relaxing and a good length as I'm returning to meditation after struggling to focus for a while.

Great 👍🏻 thanks so much- loved the Scottish (?) color of the speech…
Great impulse to have three parts of the body
Supporting my mindfulness..
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Thank you Bodhipaksa. That was exactly what I needed. I love the words for thoughts......mindfulness valves which help us!
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An excellent strategy for helping to focus the mind

Thank you for sharing this simple meditation practice. It was helpful to focus on 3 places in the body while breathing deeply. 🙏

This slaps! Never once have I had a disappointing track from this account.

Bhodipaksa is a true master of the recorded meditation guide.

Thank you - helps to stay on breathing in mediation

Great practice that helps you connect to the breath in a gently encompassing way, thanks.

Surprisingly fulfilling. I caught mind wondering and quickly returned. Nice.

that is a good exercise for me to help with wandering mind which has been over performing lately :^)

love the metaphor of attention as a lamp rather than a flashlight ... such a great reminder of the power of language, metaphor, to shape our experience, and how we can make intentional choices to use language that is more useful in supporting our preferred experience

Wow at first I thought this is complicated to multi task by putting my awareness in three different areas, but once I got into it it helped to keep my grounded and have very little thoughts.
Excellent meditation ! Thank you 🙏

Wonderful guidance that really held my attention and helped calm my mind.