MIDL 15min 15 / 20: Observing Thinking

New to MIDL? 15 Minutes of Mindfulness is an introductory series to the MIDL 52 Mindfulness Meditation Trainings. 15/20 is the MIDL Mindfulness Training in the ability to observe the reality of the process and experience of thinking itself to train the First MIDL Pillar of Flexible Attention. Practice daily for one week before moving to the next exercise

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Reviews

This was another great meditation. Quickly noticing my thoughts once they appear is getting much easier as long as I stay diligent.👍🏿

I do have two questions though, what do you mean when you ask where we experience thoughts? Is it where we feel them in our body? If so I'm not really sure how to describe that since I normally hear or see my thoughts.

Also, I remember reading in a past comment that the reason why we place our tongues behind our teeth is to connect an energy channel. Is there anywhere I can read more about the energy channels in the body and how they work during meditation?

Day 1. I have been doing these meditations for about 24 weeks and do not seem to be getting any better with not drifting off. Maybe I am better than when I started and I don't realise it. 🙈
I will still continue as it is a really nice way to start my day.
Day 2. Day 3. Day 4. Day 5. Day 6. Day 7.

A powerful investigation into the process of thinking. Thank you!!🙏🙏🙏

These lessons are getting harder. I'm trying to stop thinking, and the effort becomes a thought. And then I realize that my brain has already been distracted...

An interesting exercise getting to the moment when thought arises. Thinking seemed like a quiet whisper for me, at least, in this exercise beginning almost immediately as you say, stop thinking. Hard to know what the whisper is saying at that point. More like a feeling of some subtle mental energy before words actually form.

I think 😀 I need to listen to this one every day! After so many years of meditation I still have days where my thinking is so active (and loud). At moments even your voice slipped into the background. I do notice though that after 10 minutes or so everything begins to calm down. Thank you Stephen!

A very good, very analytical exercise in getting to know and witness how the mind works.

love the detail, meticulousness.

A very good meditation. I like the silences. Thank you!

I’m following Stephen’s 15 minute series as suggested and i can see how more aware I am of how and what I am thinking. I look forward to continuing and seeing what happens as my awareness grows.

So wonderful. I enjoy the clarity of instruction...and all the lovely space in between. Thank you 😊

A friend of mine has a little troubles to get through This mini course excercise Because of the rithm of talk. She is very enthousistic about the lessons, But Maybe she want to stop Because of it. I advise just to go through, But do not know how advise her in This matter.
Do you have any tips about how to handle small irritations during the talk?

I love all the lessons you allready learned me And I wanna give This blessing to other people aswell.

I noticed that my thinking happens in back of my eyes. When my attention moves it goes from touch of my hands to back of my eyes. Also commentator chats but I realized that there are some differences between commentator and thinking. I should look more carefully.

Great. Thank you.

Wonderful! Will bookmark this one. Thanks, Stephen 🙂

That was quite a challenging meditation. It was very instructive and I found that when thinking I both see and hear the thoughts, depending on what they are about, Thank you

Peaceful medidation ! Sweet vioice ponctuated by silente space. Good way to experiment thinking flow.Thank you for this beautiful meditation!

Perfect. Though sometimes it looks like there are no thoughts, there is some very, very faint background noise in the corners of my mind which (I think) only consists of loose words or something. Can't make any of it. I'll come back to this guide for sure and observe that noise. Excellent series, thanks Stephen.

Always worthwhile. Thank you for your guidence!

Loved it 💗 helped me a lot. Thank you.