Introduction To Chanting Meditation #8 Popping Out
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Introduction To Chanting Meditation #8 Popping Out

by Mark White Lotus

Type
guided
Activity
Meditation
Suitable for
Everyone

This session’s theme is Popping Out of our thoughts, practicing our calming and clarity skills. This begins our module on Insight Meditation, or Vipassana, what we call our clarity muscle. We are constantly taking in stimulus and then processing it. Our radar is ceaselessly assessing is this good or bad, and how and if we respond. This constant state of vigilance and arousal can adversely affect us all with anxiety, depression, fear and illness. Our brain can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination. Stories we tell ourselves take on the same weight as events outside us. So we need to be aware and pay attention to the stories we create from the stimulus we receive. Today we are going to explore how to recognize thoughts and yet not be triggered by them, to instead simply observe, without judging or criticizing, nor acting upon them. We do this by using a few mental tricks to “pop out” of our thought bubbles.

MeditationThought ObservationNon Judgmental AwarenessBreath AwarenessBody ScanMental EquanimitySelf CompassionMindful MovementGratitudeAnxietyDepressionCalming Muscle ExerciseGratitude Practice

Meet your Teacher

Mark White Lotus

Oakland, CA, USA

Meet your Teacher

Mark White Lotus

Oakland, CA, USA