Investigating The Mind: A Short Guided Meditation (07:16)

This meditation offers gentle guidance around our effort to meditate and our attention to the mind. We focus on the attitude of the mind, noticing its value, its own guidance that reminds us what meditation is for. Mindfulness means paying attention to the purpose of our experience. This meditation asks you to do the same and see if you can notice the sensations as part of your meditation and your experience without over-identifying with them.

Transcript

Letting the words drop away. Bringing mindfulness to the moment. So finding the breath, The body, The sounds, And the environment, And just settling. And if settling is not what's happening, Then just knowing what is happening. Observing, Investigating, With kindness, With compassion. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away. Continuing to make that wise effort to come back to the present moment. Whenever the mind wanders away. Remembering wandering is just what the mind does. It's not a problem. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away. Letting the words drop away.