A Wise Choice

This practice begins with a brief reminder of a choice we make each day: to live with mindful attention, or become caught in the busyness of habitual thought patterns. It then leads the listener through a breath-focused meditation, followed by the experience of allowing the mind to become distracted and lost in thought. The listener is encouraged to contrast the two experiences and to make a wise choice through meditative practices.

Image by Caleb Jones on Unsplash. Music by John Bartmann (Interstellar Space), and Shady Dave (Under The Stars, Feelings of Twilight).

Reviews

Thank you for the excellent meditaiton that gives us the opportunity to focus our attention and practice choosing

This is not only an excellent introduction to meditation, but also teaches a wonderful strategy for intermediate meditators. I intend to share this with my clients. Thank you.

A great beginner tool to mindfulness. Thank you.

This was lovely and simple. Thank you!

For someone relatively new to insight timer I have found it a wonderful source of music, meditation practices and like minded people. Thank you for your guided, calm inducing advice. (One of my oldest friends of 30yrs is arriving next month from Toronto and I have always found the Canadian accent soft and easy to listen to🌏)

Absolutely wonderful very helpful, I will bookmark & be back time and time again, from my heart to yours thank you 🙏

This is great for beginners. I have been meditati g a while now nut wl share tgis with my partner who is just beginning his journey. Very clear and clever. Namaste🕉🐒🐒🐒

It could be better with just a bit more time, but I think it makes its case. And we can do this experiment any time. Essentially it is great in explaining meditation and pretty good at demonstrating it.

Simple but powerful

Wonderful. Thank you!

Beautiful....🌻

I really found this one a pleasant eye opener.

I’ve been meditating for about 5 years and it’s a daily moment to moment journey. I’ve listened to an enormous amount of mediations by hundreds of people. Abraham Hicks, Paul santis, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche , Jason Stephenson just to name a few of my favorites. I’ve even meet and mediated with deepok chopra. When I talk with people about meditation who don’t know much about it, it’s always hard to put it into words as it’s a personal journey. I’d like to thank you for this meditation as it’s one of the most concise descriptions of what it’s all about in it’s simplicity, and that’s really cool.
I will pass this along to my children who have recently but slowly started their own journey into mindfulness with meditation.
Thank you again, jacy 💙

Very good experiential meditation. It proved to me again that meditation works.

Love this meditation!! Practicing mindfulness Is so important,I’m trying daily,Thank you for giving me the tools to help.So grateful many blessings Namaste 🙏

Thank you for the awareness to the breath🙏❤️ Nice peaceful ending 👍.

The contrast of noting where your awareness is when focused, versus when it’s unmonitored, is a powerful tool I plan to use in all areas of my life!

Thank you. I wish you warmth and safety also. M X

Excellent insights and suggested action, thank you!!