A framework for embodied meditation
What does it mean to pay attention to our body? A lot opens up when we bring our awareness to the silent, invisible parts.
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What does it mean to pay attention to our body? A lot opens up when we bring our awareness to the silent, invisible parts.
The phrase feels like a contradiction in terms: we think of lemmings following each other into collective suicide as they jump off a cliff.
The following one-minute video reflects a simple way to embody a pluralist approach in our difficult conversations.
It is normal to feel awkward when you force yourself to sit quietly by yourself if you are not accustomed to doing that. The practice I describe here combines meditation and mindful connection.
This course is offered by the Polyvagal Institute. It is for people who see an opportunity to redefine mindfulness based on Polyvagal Theory (PVT).
This process group fosters experiential integration of what you know about yourself and what you know about therapy. It trains you to help clients discover their way forward through an embodied experiential process that flows naturally.
Focusing is based on our ability to experience and process a bodily felt sense. This course describes what makes this possible, how it relates to fostering therapeutic change, and how to apply it effectively in therapy.
Exploring together, we give ourselves more of a chance to experience meditation as a process going on beyond the strict boundary of the isolated self.
Focusing is a natural process. It works best when we create a space in which it arises by itself. There are 9 video clips for a total of 24 minutes.
It takes just one minute to literally get in touch with your inner experience. This simple embodied mindfulness exercise just requires a little ball.
I am going to describe to you a one-minute practice. Now, when I say one minute, it could be 50 seconds or five minutes.
Here is a simple mindfulness practice to do with your spouse or partner: breathing together.
If you want to hear yourself think, it’s very helpful to be listened to: The following 5-minute video outlines how to have a mindful listening partnership.
To free up our creativity, it helps to explore the issue in a Mindful Listening Partnership.
Felt sensing is a natural ability that we all have. For many of us, it takes a special kind of attention to find it as we have been over-reliant on explicit cognition.