MIDL 15/36: Insight Meditation: Relaxing The Eyelids

In this meditation, Stephen Procter will guide you in the insight meditation skill of relaxing your eyelids and eyes to directly bring about deep relaxation within your mind. There is a direct correlation between the alertness of the eyes and eyelids and hyper-vigilance of the fight/flight response. Relaxing the eyelids has the effect of temporarily turning off this fight/flight response and allowing the mind to find safety in stillness. Support articles and instructions for this guided meditation can be found in the Free Online MIDL Insight Meditation Course by checking Stephens Procter's teacher profile.

Reviews

Slowly working through this course. Really enjoyed this session, love that there is no background music, your soothing voice, and space between guidance to really feel what’s happening.
Feel so relaxed and peaceful at the end and that really found resting awareness.
Thank you 🙏

Thanks for this wonderful practice. The calm tone and lots of silence give a great opportunity to see yourself, as it is, with the need to change anything becoming more quiet and relaxed.

Very relaxing
Thank you

What a great system, thank you for this course! I never really thought about how much tightness I carry in my eyes, thank you for the tools to be more mindful in every way!

Another softening technique, and for me, this worked really well. I'm interested to find how repeating this practice increases softening my mind while sitting. The eyelids a great segway for me.
Thank you Stephen for your guidance 🧘‍♂️