Just Listening

A practice for calming the mind that involves actively listening in every direction. This creates a form of "attentional stretch" that results in a substantial reduction in the amount of thinking that the mind generates. It's a quick and easy way to calm the mind.

Reviews

Beautiful. Such stillness in the awareness. Thank you 🙏

Thoroughly enjoyed that, still learning. Subtle changes in respect to where you place your chin and smile 😊 thanks for sharing 🙏

Yesterday, I did half of this as I didn’t have much time. It helped me calm my mind. Today I did it all but I found it was a bit too subtle for the extreme anxiety and very painful body sensations I’m experiencing. Picking the right type of miindfulness practice for the mind state you are in is quite an art.
Edit and reply: Thank you for the recommendations Bodhipaksa. I’ll try those other two you mention. I do often choose your self-kindness meditations too and find them very helpful. My journey has been long and arduous and I realise that choosing the most helpful practice at any given time is a skill in itself, especially if one is dealing with trauma. For example, the listening practice hit the spot the day before and I intend to keep repeating it, but for me, for now, it’s one to practice before I become too dysregulated.
I get a great amount of help and ease from all of your mindfulness practices on here and am grateful for the time and effort you put into recording them so well and making them so easy for people to access.