Recording from the study day held in the Chapel of the RNI on Friday the 19th January 2024.
Meditation practice 1 – Body and mind coming to rest and letting go of everything. In this meditation we practise coming to rest as completely as we can and allowing all things to arise into awareness and then fall away in their own time. Peace will arise naturally for us if we cease searching for it.
Meditation practice 2 – Relinquishing control. When we allow mind and body to rest together and stop trying to change the flow of thought and sensation we are letting of our instinctive desire to control our thoughts and feelings. This may result in the rising of a sense of insecurity, even of fear, but coming to rest with uncertainty and letting things go allows the calmness and peacefulness that is part of our essence to arise naturally. Only by relinquishing all control will we be able to experience peace.
Meditation practice 3 – Integrating mind and body through the body scan. A body scan practice designed to allow body and mind to come together, to rest together and to experience peace.
Meditation practice 4 – Using self-compassion to help us find the peace and calmness of mind that we desire. A compassion meditation to help us realise our common humanity, overcome our self-critic and rest with ourselves as we are. Peace arises when we learn to stop fighting ourselves.
REMEMBER – mindfulness meditation works in a counterintuitive manner. The more you search the less you will find. The more you desire the greater will be your disappointment. The more you try to find peace the more you will experience agitation.
Everything changes when you do nothing at all. Just rest and go with the flow.
Highland Mindfulness Group 