Three Metaphors: Six Minutes of Natural Practice

This guided meditation--a traditional Tibetan mindfulness practice-- helps you connect to your body, breath and mind through the use of three metaphors: the mountain, the ocean and the sky. When you sit still, the body is mountainlike in its innate groundedness and stability. The breath is oceanlike in its ebb and flow. The mind is skylike, in its spaciousness and openness. Connecting to these natural metaphors gets underneath our conceptual mind and taps into our deeper brain's connection to the natural world. A very quick entry into relaxation and a good meditation when you are short on time.

Reviews

Very nice. Like the metaphors. Thank you 🙏

Thank you for this beautiful meditation.

Sinple and powerful

Love this. Feelings matter.

Lovely short meditation for grounding.

Wonderful. Just the thing! I am so grateful for all your meditations here on InsightTimer 💕thank you kindly 🙏

Amazing

Muito grata!

I like this Meditation very much! Unfortunately the Sound is Not very good.

I will use these metaphors daily in my meditation. Thank you.

I absolutely love this meditation, it is so grounding and calming! Thank you 🙏🏻

I really like this one! I usually try to meditate for 20 minutes in the morning, but this one is great for when I’m short on time. It really makes me feel more grounded.

She is great

Wonderful meditation that never fails to ground me and clear my mind when I only have a short time available. Thank you 🙂🙏

🙏🏻

Peaceful. It has helped me quiet my mind. Gratitude!

Very helpful thank you 🧡

This was lovely, and very effective ❤

Short but powerful . Thank you.

So soothing and relaxing this morning. Thank you for this gift. I shall try to recall these metaphors as my day unfolds!

Helpful and healing.

Love the simplicity and the very very slow pace. Love that pace. Thank you!!

Lovely, simple, sweet and deep. Thank you Lama Willa.

Bullseye. Excellent! Thank you. I read some reviews-
For me: simply perfect. 🙌

Beautiful!

At first it seemed too slow but it really helped me relax. Just love the nature metaphors —I am solid like a rock, a mountain but my mind is infinite like the sky. Thank you. I feel relaxed yet powerful and inspired.

I heard lengthy explanations about the three metaphors, they are widely used and already taught by the Buddha to his son Rahula. But such a wonderful/powerful short right to point and on the spot practice is simply marvellous. No fuse pure bliss, with a body like a mountain the breath like the ocean and a mind vast as space intimately with a open heart experience the flow of the the river of life. Thank you so much L. Willa

This was wonderful. Thank you!

Body mountain. Breath ocean. Mind sky. I'll remember. Thanks

Very grounding🙏

Short & sweet. Thank you!

Beautiful simple images to write down and reflect on throughout the day. Thank you 🙏

Only wish this was longer. Thank you.

Lovely, thank you.

So relaxing

Powerful metaphors. I appreciate the simplicity and open-endedness of this meditation. Thank you. ⛰🌊⛅

Thank you