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Eye Contact Meditation: Seeing & Being Seen
With Charles Freligh, PhDThis will change the way you see the world around you. Here are 4 reasons to take the course: 1. It will reduce your automatic judgments of others and of yourself. 2. It will provide a novel experience that breaks social norms in a safe space. 3. It will help you access the spiritual experience (the feeling beyond self). 4. Feel (not think about) the neuroscience of mirror neuron resonance. Each session will alternate between Just Seeing (without guidance) and guided eye contact practices with different themes. The Just Seeing practices will get longer as we move through the course and build this muscle, culminating in a 10-minute eye contact practice. And the guided sessions will move through Seeing Another, Ancestral Seeing, Being Seen, and a session focused on seeing beyond ourselves into the Oneness that connects us all. There will also be one eye closed practice focused on Inner Vision. Each eye contact practice will begin and end with a short eyes-closed meditation to help us settle in and out of the practice. I could say much more, but I'd rather show you. I recorded these sessions over the course of one day, starting in the morning and ending in the evening. No matter when you watch these videos, it will be this day.
Reduce judgment of others and yourself through the portal of the eyes.
About this course
This will change the way you see the world around you. Here are 4 reasons to take the course: 1. It will reduce your automatic judgments of others and of yourself. 2. It will provide a novel experience that breaks social norms in a safe space. 3. It will help you access the spiritual experience (the feeling beyond self). 4. Feel (not think about) the neuroscience of mirror neuron resonance. Each session will alternate between Just Seeing (without guidance) and guided eye contact practices with different themes. The Just Seeing practices will get longer as we move through the course and build this muscle, culminating in a 10-minute eye contact practice. And the guided sessions will move through Seeing Another, Ancestral Seeing, Being Seen, and a session focused on seeing beyond ourselves into the Oneness that connects us all. There will also be one eye closed practice focused on Inner Vision. Each eye contact practice will begin and end with a short eyes-closed meditation to help us settle in and out of the practice. I could say much more, but I'd rather show you. I recorded these sessions over the course of one day, starting in the morning and ending in the evening. No matter when you watch these videos, it will be this day.
Meet your Teacher
Charles has a PhD in Clinical Psychology, is a published author, and works therapeutically with individuals and groups. He leads several in-person retreats each year in which he leads guided eye contact meditations. Participants often come away from retreats identifying the eye contact practice as the most memorable and profound.