RECORDINGS OF MEDITATIONS FROM INSIGHT MEETINGS IN 2014
SESSION 1 – Thursday 10th July 2014.
Practice 1 – Settling, grounding and relaxing.
Practice 2 – Judgements and preferences.
Practice 3 – The sense of self.
SESSION 2 – Thursday 7th August 2014.
Practice 1 – Breathing and relaxing.
Practice 2 – Compassion and self-compassion.
This meditation should either be done with a fellow meditator or alone whilst viewing yourself in a mirror. It is a powerful meditation intended to help break down the barriers of self-criticism, guilt and fear that prevent us from making progress in our practice.
Compassion and self-compassion
Should you experience any difficulty in performing this practice or have any issues that you would like to discuss please feel free to contact me.
SESSION 3 – Thursday 11th September 2014.
Practice 1 – Settling and grounding – resting the mind in the body.
Practice 2 – What is the sense of self?
Practice 3 – Short compassion practice.
SESSION 4 – Thursday the 9th October 2014.
Practice 1 – Settling and grounding, lowering resistance.
Sitting and grounding, lowering resistance.
Practice 2 – the 4 immeasurables practice.
SESSION 5 – Thursday the 6th November 2014.
Practice 1 – Settling and grounding using counting.
Grounding and settling with counting.
Practice 2 – Safe space practice.
Practice 3 – Short being human compassion practice.
Being human compassion practice
SESSION 6 – Thursday the 4th November 2014.
Practice 1 – Breathing, settling, grounding and going into a safe space.
Practice 2 – The 5 senses with resting in awareness.
As stated above these insight meditation sessions will continue in the new year and the next session will take place on the 8th January.
SESSION 7 – Thursday the 8th January (the “no bowl” session delayed by power cuts)
Practice 1 – Settling into the flow of the out breath.
Practice 2 – “What sort of person do I think I am?” reflective meditation.
“What sort of person do I think I am?
Practice 3 – Starting to build self-compassion.
SESSION 8 – Thursday the 12th February.
Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.
Practice 1 – Opening up and letting go on the breath meditation.
Discussion and enquiry session – the Egocentric Preference System.
Discussion and teaching session
Practice 2 – the sense of self.
SESSION 9 – Thursday the 12th March.
Practice 1 – The “Am I allowed to be happy” reflective meditation.
Practice 2 – Dealing with distraction meditation.
SESSION 10 – Thursday the 9th April.
Practice 1 – Short settling and grounding routine.
Settling and grounding routine
Practice 2 – Touching peace 1.
Practice 3 – Touching peace 2 (recorded Thursday 23rd April).
SESSION 11 – Thursday the 7th May.
Practice 1 – Touching peace 3.
Practice 2 – Golden globe compassion practice.
SESSION 12 – Thursday the 21st May.
Practice 1 – Stop trying.
Practice 2 – Generating space.
Practice 3 – Generating space with compassion.
Generating space with compassion
SESSION 13 – Thursday the 11th June.
Practice 1 – Settling, grounding and space.
Settling, grounding and space.
Practice 2 – Basic mindfulness – letting go of distraction.
The next session will be in 2 weeks time on the 25th June. In this session we will look at levels of feeling and experience within in the mind paying particular attention to our attitudes to the feelings and emotions that we experience.
SESSION 14 – Thursday the 25th June.
Practice 1 – Settling, grounding and coming to rest.
Practice 2 – Reflective meditation – levels of the mind and attitudes.
Reflective meditation – levels of the mind and attitudes to experience.
Practice 3 – Compassion meditation – unconditional compassion towards the self.
Unconditional compassion meditation
SESSION 15 – Thursday the 9th July.
Practice – Gaining insight from being compassionate with negative experiences.
Showing compassion to negative experience
SESSION 16 -Thursday the 23rd July.
Practice – Expanding awareness.
SESSION 17 – Thursday the 27th August.
Practice – Developing compassion practice – the light of compassion
SESSION 17 – Thursday the 10th September – Turning on the light of compassion.
Practice 1 – Compassion and the 3 points of practice.
Practice 2 – Shining the light of compassion in the mind.
Shining the light of compassion in the mind
Practice 3 – Compassion for the group.
SESSION 18 – Thursday the 24th September – Self-forgiveness.
Practice 1 – Stop trying and be compassionate.
Stop trying and be compassionate
Practice 2 – Self-forgiveness (with many thanks to Stephen Levine)
SESSION 19 – Thursday the 8th October – Viewing the mind with compassion
SESSION 20 – Thursday the 22nd October – Generating a compassionate space
Practice 1 – observing the chaos of the mind with compassion.
Resting with chaos compassionately
Practice 2 – generating a sense of spaciousness (with many thanks to Stephen Levine)
Generating compassionate space
Practice 3 – short compassion meditation for self and others.
Compassion for self and others
SESSION 21 – Thursday the 12th November – Examining the sense of self.
Practice 1 – Sitting with the self.
Practice 2 – Looking at the roles we play.
SESSION 22 – Thursday the 26th November – Going deeper into the self.
Practice 1 – Sitting with the self 2
Practice 2 – Questioning the sense of self.
SESSION 23 – Thursday the 10th December – The need for self-compassion as we examine the sense of that self.
Practice 1 – Resting in awareness of the self.
Practice 2 – Self- compassion and the sense of self.
SESSION 24 – Thursday the 17th December – the concept of duality.
Practice 1 – Resting and observing duality.
Practice 2 – Contemplating duality of thought and feeling.
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