Ep. 201 – A Guided Practice on Working with Thought and Emotions

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness, Vipassana, Buddhism, Insightmeditation, Meditation, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Highlighting the impermanence of experience, Joseph Goldstein leads a practice in noticing mental and physical sensations.

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein offers a guided practice on:

Working with thought and emotion
Full body awareness without effort or struggling
Noticing the breath and other sensations
Being aware of thoughts just as they are arising
Opening up to the fullness of experience
The power of naming emotions
Sensing the impermanent nature of all things
Moving from the conceptual into direct experience
The seduction of our thoughts

This 2018 recording from an Insight Meditation Retreat was originally published by Dharmaseed

“We don’t have to do anything to make things change. The very nature of whatever is arising, whether it’s in the body or the mind, the very nature is that whatever arises will also pass away.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	So you can treat all that noise in the mind, all those thoughts in the mind, you could treat them exactly as you would with sounds.
0:11.0	If we were sitting here and it was quite noisy as I said
0:14.4	yesterday sound is never a distraction. It's just another thing to be aware of and
0:19.0	so we could be sitting and lots of sounds are arising we're just sitting and letting the sounds come and go.
0:24.0	Same thing, can you treat the thought like a sound?
0:28.0	So the fact of thinking happening is not a problem if you're aware that you're thinking and that's where
0:35.8	using the mental noting with thought is very helpful because thoughts are very
0:41.0	seductive and it's easy to get carried away. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in
1:06.2	self-discovery. Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of
1:12.1	mindfulness. If you are interested in
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1:32.0	settle into the awareness of your body posture.
1:36.0	Relaxing back
1:40.5	into the awareness of the body sitting.
3:10.0	Sit and know you're sitting. sitting, and no use heading. I'm going to You might use the phrase, there is a body, to help the mind relax into the awareness of the whole body without efforting or struggling. You simply become aware of the sensations of the body breathing. Breathing in, know you breathing in, breathing out, know you're breathing in, breathing out, know you're breathing out. Keeping in mind that it's not a breathing exercise,
3:12.8	there's no particular way to breathe,
3:15.1	it's an exercise in awareness. I'm going to Sometimes it's helpful to use the mental noting.
3:37.0	Just a simple, very quiet, a whisper of a note in the mind in and out, or rise and fall. within the framework that is a body. You will naturally become aware of the
4:09.2	sensations of the body breathing. You may also become aware of other sensations in the body.
4:19.6	Tension, tightness, vibration, tingling, coolness, warmth.
4:29.0	Whatever sensation shows itself predominantly calls your attention.
4:37.5	That sensation becomes the new object of awareness. You might make a note of the particular kind of sensation it is,
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