Aim and Sustain Concentration

This is a lightly guided meditation to help build concentration. Long Pauses as requested.

Transcript

In this meditation,

We'll explore a concentrated awareness practice.

The intention here is to collect the attention as we begin bringing the attention to this sitting,

Breathing body right here,

Right now.

Opening to the comings and goings of sound.

For the purpose of this meditation,

There's nothing worth thinking.

Aiming the attention towards this experience of breathing,

Whether at the tip of the nose or the rise and fall of the belly.

Aim and sustain.

Aim the attention,

Tip of the nose,

Rise and fall of the belly,

Or wherever you can most easily make contact with the breath.

And then sustain that attention for as long as possible.

Breathing in.

Know that you're breathing in.

Breathing out.

Know that you're breathing out.

And then,

As we go through this meditation,

We'll explore a more concentrated awareness practice.

The intention here is to collect the attention as we begin bringing the attention to this sitting,

Breathing body right here,

Right now.

Alright,

Great.

You you you you you when we recognize that our attention wanders off this isn't a problem it's just what minds do think plan remember we acknowledge where the attention has gone future or past history or mystery and then with a sense of friendliness or kindness with the mind we aim the attention back and sustain that attention for as long as possible you you you you you you you you you you aim and sustain you again and again you you seeing the arising and passing away of thoughts and feelings experiences you you aiming the attention back and sustaining that attention for as long as possible you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you

Reviews

A really lovely meditation. I appreciate the long silences. Thank you very much.

This is it!! What i’ve been looking for for guidance all this time! Just enough and no more...Thank you!

This helped me to get into a deep meditation. I love the stillness and the quietness in between the ques 🙏🏼
Note that there are still 2 minutes time left after the ending bells 🔔🔔🔔
Thank you and namaste 🕉️🙏🏼💚

Good basic meditation with minimal instruction. Thank you

Just the right interval of gentle reminder to "aim & sustain" in proportion to the mostly silence

Whenever I need a ratio of largely quiet to a lot less but also perfectly calibrated guidance I come back to this one as it suits the morning again and again.

Just the right amount of guidance. I find your voice very calming.

I'm very thankful, Jason. It's a very humane, well built and thought through guidance, I enjoy this meditation each time! Namaste

Great meditation for those with a regular practice! Thanks Jason.💜

Really helpful, perfect amount of guidance. Pleasant voice with sincerity.

Thank you. I wish there were more meditation with more silence and just the right amount of guidance.

I appreciated the long periods of silence. Aiming and sustaining were the perfect instructions for me this morning.

Nice balance between Jason's instructions and open sound. The encouragements to come back were well timed for me.

This is a great next step for me to maintain focus! Thank you.

I am used to meditating with silence so I didn't mind the long intervals of silence. . I like this and think it a good tool. Thank you.

As advertised. A practice of stillness with minimal guidence. Excellent!
Thank you.

Thank you Jason, Namaste

Great for developing concentration, with long silences

Jason's meditation are great. This is perfect for those who want to expand silent meditation. but need just a litte guidance. Mostly silent.