Being Here Now (Open Awareness) 20-Minutes

This meditation, derived from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and other mindfulness-based approaches, is designed to practice being here now, that is to consciously be, as you are, with all you are, from one moment to the next. Rather than attempting to focus on one particular part of your experience, the objective is to flexibly and fluidly attend to whatever enters your awareness in the here and now.

To this end, I invite you to bring forth an intention of openness or receptivity, that is to openly allow your experience to come and go freely, without any struggle or wish for things to be different. Doing so can help us to forge a more flexible relationship with ourselves and the world at large.

Background music by Piotr Witowski