The Practice Of Presence

This guided meditation supports grounded awareness and presence by offering a 4-part instruction: Noticing, Naming, Allowing, and Returning. This practice is a slice for a larger instruction. My voice is not high quality and there are other distracting sounds here and there, providing you with an opportunity to work with distractions and imperfections. This 4-part guidance helps you shift from being entangled with mental activity to befriending it, while also supporting relaxation, ease, and grace despite your circumstances. This practice is ideal for when you feel distracted, ungrounded, frustrated, or weary, and you want a simple way to stop fighting or struggling with mental aggravation.

Transcript

Taking a moment to align again your posture with the eight points.

This is also a posture of dignity.

It's just the pure form of it is telling your small mind that you're bigger than all that.

Just through this posture,

Through this allowing.

Bringing your attention to the body breathing.

And allowing the impermanence of the breath to do what it does naturally,

Which is to inhale and exhale.

Bringing your attention to the sensation of breathing.

Being curious.

The breath is impermanent.

It comes and it goes.

You can't really control it.

Being reminded of those three characteristics.

All of our life experiences are impermanent.

They're impersonal.

And they're imperfect.

Just allowing that love,

That universal love to be in your awareness.

And allowing that love to be in your awareness.

And you feel a sense of stability with your breathing.

You can open your awareness to notice what's happening.

Taking your time to notice what's happening.

Name what's happening.

Naming it with a sense of affection.

Allowing it to be there.

Allowing is without judgment,

Without perfecting,

Without wishing it weren't there.

Allowing it.

And then when the awareness of it has subsided,

Just returning to the breath.

And taking refuge in the breath.

Relaxed awareness of breathing.

And then you open your awareness again to notice what's happening.

A gentle naming of what's happening.

Allowing it to be present in your awareness.

And when it's right,

Returning to the breath,

The body breathing.

And letting this awareness be graceful and soft.

Observing your experience through the eyes of kindness.

Being tender towards your experience.

And curious.

And then you open your awareness again to notice what's happening.

If you find your mind wandering,

You can name that wandering.

Allow it.

And return to the breath.

And then you open your awareness again to notice what's happening.

Allow your awareness to be without effort.

It's not working hard at it,

We want to open.

Softly open.

And let your breath be free.

This practice is a way to comfort yourself.

So let things be.

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Reviews

I love this practice of gentle allowing. I noticed background noise that reminded me of growling (a dog or someone’s stomach), so I included my amusement and these sounds with gentle awareness.

Beautiful guided meditation. Your voice is so peaceful and soothing.
Very grateful to you for creating this meditation.🙏❤️

Peaceful and just the right amount of guidance.🙏🏻

Genius! Kindness personified.

Very nice. So relaxing and centering

Ruth. Please do more. And think about offering a course or two. Your offerings are unique, your voice is honest and straightforward. Please never consider adding music.

Quiet, comforting, gentle

Lovely calming meditation 💕

Helped me open to my inner experience, see it more clearly and let it be. Thank you.

A beautiful way to get back to the center. Thank you mama Ruth ✨💕🙏🏾

Thank you so much for this beauty, Miss King.

A beautiful short practice to start the day and to centre myself

amazing. thank you for this blessing.

Thank you. I could have stayed longer.

Such a wonderful teaching. Even a growling stomach is impermanent, impersonal, and imperfect. It made the talk more real as that happens to me all the time. My stomach was growling as I listened. 🙏

I sit in gratitude for you Beloved in this universal moment of stillness. Today as I was guided, I listened to the birds singing outside of my window, water from a fountain, the movement of necessity (cars, planes) and the peace of quiet. This moment, at this time beckons your discernment to heal. Thank you for your gifts. You are appreciated.

Such relief
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you so much for this simple and very beautiful meditation. It is just what I needed 🙏.

I felt supported and accepted with tenderness. I love Ruth’s voice and manner of guidance. The background noises sound like a hungry tummy 🥰

Wonderful and complete, except i missed an ending bell.