Open Awareness Meditation

This meditation accompanies chapter 8 of my book, Mindfulness Meditation and the Art of Reiki. When we practice mindfulness meditation, we have two different approaches to it that we can take. We can focus closely on one thing, becoming utterly absorbed to the exclusion of everything else (samatha), or we can open out and step back and be mindful of many things in a wider field of awareness. Our awareness can be narrow or broad.