Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, tuning in with Terrible Audio.

Once again, I am so sorry, still waiting on a new mic.

When you podcast daily, well, you break mics often, so this is a second broken mic in

six months.

And yes, next time around, I will order two, so I have a backup mic.

In the meantime, I hope you can forgive this audio.

My computer microphone is trying its best, and it's very self-conscious.

In today's episode, I'm going to share a very simple strategy you can use to start to

refine your attention and concentration within your meditation practice.

We'll be a short episode, and we'll get to that technique in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so this is going to be a technique, or we could say a refinement in your attention,

that you can use during breath meditation.

People have different styles of practicing meditation, but a lot of us will use at least

for one of our practices and awareness of the breath, feeling the belly as it inflates

on an inhale, and then feeling a deflate on an exhale.

And this is usually one of the first techniques you'll learn when getting an introduction

to meditation.

And this is also the foundational technique that I was practicing in the monastery in Burma.

And during my time in the monastery in Burma, I would get to speak with my teacher once

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