Practicing With Open Awareness

This 20 minute practice is a practice in being present with the arising and fading away of experience. It can help you to focus by eliminating mental chatter.

Reviews

Wonderful explanation of the different intents between focused awareness and open awareness.

Beautiful 🙏 thank you

For me this is the perfectly balanced practice. The right balance of instruction and silence, the instruction spot on.

Wonderful, thank you.

Jon is amazing. So seasoned and bright. His voice is perfect.

Really lovely open awareness meditation

Loved the image of passing thoughts as fireflies lighting up a dark field. Thank you for sharing this meditation.

Beautiful, thank you Jon 🙏🏼 Love the way you describe focus and open awareness as laser and flood lights 💙

Jon, Thank you for this guided meditation. “Notice the space between the thoughts” helped me become present and aware, and peaceful.

Great way to practice open awareness. Some structure but plenty of space as well. Thank you

Wonderful thank you 🙏🌟

Great short awareness meditation with a really good introduction! Thank you 🙏🙏

Thank you! Interesting !

10/10

Thank you

I listened to this in a noisy airport. It was so well guided that I was able to establish an inner peace and maintain it throughout the periods of silence. My insight was that the conversations around me were background noise just like the thoughts and feelings which arose.

Excellent straight forward practice, a literal practicing of how to sit and what to do with everything that comes up, physically and mentally. Plenty of quiet practice space in between gentle guidance. Looking back on my early experiences with meditation, I think open awareness is a better first style of practice for beginners rather than breath or other singularly pointed practice.

Excellent. Very clear pointer.

A guided meditation that one might want I revisit many times. I found it helpful in noticing sensations and thoughts to be as bubbles that could be acknowledged, yet could be gently pushed away. The body is sitting but my mind is not my body.

Gentle voice and nice pacing

Great meditation! Just enough guidance and space to practice on my own. Thanks🙏🏻

I really liked this meditation, lovely lengths of silences in between instructions, namaste

Clear, direct, heartfelt

Great! Enjoyed the moments of silence to practice.

Thank you 🙏🏻

That was a perfect meditation

😌🙏

Wonderful. Loved all the silence. Very peaceful.

Exactly what I needed and looking for this morning. Needing that kind of focus lately, thank you! 🕉

Really enjoyed this . .when my thoughts didn't take over..thanks

I feel centered and secure, calm and accepting so that my own inner dialogue does not feel like the enemy or dictator.

Namaste🙏🏼

Superb! Perfect balance of explanation, guidance, and practice. Thank you.

Enjoyed this one. The pauses were helpful as well. Thank you. Shared

Excellent!

Well paced and guided with opportunity for quiet practice. With gratitude 🙏🏼

Nicely done. Thank you.

I really enjoyed this and will use it throughout my day. Thank you!