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Living Meditation: Bringing Awareness into Everyday Life
Description
In this meditation, I guide you into drawing on a deeper awareness that can accompany you throughout your day.
Over time, meditation begins to move beyond the boundaries of formal practice. It becomes something we can return to again and again, not just in stillness, but in the midst of daily life.
We begin by settling into posture and becoming aware of the body and the breath. From this place of stillness, we reconnect with a deeper awareness that is always available to us.
This practice invites you to carry that awareness forward into the ordinary moments of your day. Like stopping at a place of rest along a journey, you can return to this deeper awareness again and again.
Whether you are washing your hands, eating, or meeting someone, each moment becomes an opportunity to be present more fully. To live with attention. To encounter life as it is.
In time, meditation is no longer something separate from life. Everything becomes part of the practice.
This meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or preparing to move into it, helping you bring awareness, presence and steadiness into everything you do
00:00 – Introduction
00:00 – Meditation beyond the practice
00:35 – Drawing on deep awareness
00:56 – Moments of return throughout the day
01:11 – Practising awareness while busy
01:20 – The bell
01:35 – Entering with intention
01:50 – Ground, chair, spine, breath
02:05 – Making an intention
02:23 – Awareness of the body
02:42 – From soles to crown
03:00 – Breathing into calm
04:20 – Bringing awareness into daily tasks
04:50 – Washing with awareness
05:10 – Eating with awareness
05:23 – Gratitude for what we receive
05:35 – Meeting others with presence
07:24 – Living as contemplation
08:20 – Everything is practice
09:50 – Closing bell
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