Focused Attention

In this gentle, 2.5 minute practice, let Laurie bring your attention to the felt sensation of breathing. As you begin to discern where your breathing feels most comfortable, let any stressful or negative thoughts slip away and lose any degree of their importance. These thoughts do not control you. This practice will provide you with greater focus, calm, and an abundance of joy. It is perfect to follow amidst a stressful day or to end a busy day.

Transcript

So just sit in a way that is alert and relaxed.

You can close your eyes if you like.

And just bring your attention to your body sitting right here in the chair.

Feeling your feet contacting the floor,

Your back against the chair or your legs on the chair.

Bring attention to your body right here now.

And now we can move to another anchor.

Let's bring our attention to breathing.

So breathing in,

I can feel my lungs expand,

The air coming in at the nose.

Breathing out.

I feel my exhale,

My chest fall,

Air going out.

So we actually tune in to the felt sensation of breathing.

See if you can bring attention to the beginning of a breath.

Breathing in and out.

And when your mind wanders or you get distracted or have a thought,

You can just note that.

Breathing,

Thought,

Sound,

And bring your attention back to breathing.

Let's do another deep breath.

Breathing in,

Breathing out.

You can open your eyes.

So that's the skill of focused attention.

Bringing an anchor,

Bringing attention to it such as the breath.

And when your mind wanders or you get distracted,

You just bring your attention back.

And we do that over and over again in mindful breathing meditation,

Also called focused attention meditation.

It's really one of the foundational meditations to build our skills of being present.

Reviews

It was effective session
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A love.y little meditation, perfect for beginners to teach a great technique for meditation.

Quick but effective

I really liked the reference to “the felt sensation of breathing”.

Simple instruction for introducing mindful breathing to the ultimate beginner, such as introduction to a mental health client.

Good Thank you 🙏🧡

Perfect little pause! Thank you

Good quick effective

I like how short this meditation is. Perfect for busy college students like me.🙏❤️

Beautiful, simple reminder of the practice. Very nice! Thank you🙏🌻

Good intro --short and sweet. Thank you!

so simple and beautiful. i love all of laurie’s peaceful meditations. thank you laurie.

Simple and practical, thank you!

Attention​ right Here right Now! Thank You Laurie...

Succinct but powerful. Thank you!

Merci, thank you I appreciate very much. It is a very good reminder for me.🙏