Episode 6: Life Abundant: A Meditation on Vitality

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Meditation, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Contemplation, Psychology, Buddhism, Development, Thomasmcconkie, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It is a common misunderstanding in our society that meditation is primarily a practice of learning to relax. While relaxation is very much one of the fruits of this practice, it is just the beginning of the profound gifts that flow from open mind and open heart. In this episode, Thomas leads a longer meditation and points out one of the qualities that naturally arises in awake awareness—the feeling of Life itself.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.
0:07.0	I'm your host Thomas Mekonki. Thanks so much for listening today.
0:11.0	If you've listened to past seasons, I will usually take a break from the chalk talk,
0:20.0	the didactics of meditation and just do a longer guided meditation every few episodes.
0:26.5	That day is today. We're going to do a little bit longer of a practice.
0:31.2	Just a quick word about it, as mindfulness is being popularized in the Western world. People develop impressions, notions of what
0:40.6	mindfulness is. One of those popular impressions is that mindfulness is all about relaxation.
0:47.7	Mindfulness is not, not about relaxation, but I wouldn't say it's primarily about relaxation at all.
0:54.0	We often get
0:55.2	really relaxed in the process and I have nothing wrong with that but relaxation
1:00.9	is just the beginning of a mindfulness practice a mindful experience and a
1:04.9	mindful life so I thought to honor the rich complexity of this tradition and practice of mindfulness, we would focus
1:14.6	on vitality today. What does it mean to be vital? To be alive, to live a life abundant
1:23.1	thereabouts. That's a little bit of the territory we're going to be covering today.
1:31.2	So I would invite you to find a place, find a posture where you can practice for the next 15, 20 minutes or so,
1:40.5	and see how much you can learn while we do this.
2:25.1	Okay. and see how much you can learn while we do this. These first few moments are critical, setting up your practice. And they're beautiful.
2:27.2	It's a rich opportunity here to come back to yourself, to rest in yourself.
2:43.1	Give yourself time, give the body time to organize into a posture that allows you to be very at ease, very comfortable, but also very awake, very alert, alive.
3:13.3	Don't try to put your body in a particular position. Let the body start to meditate you.
3:17.3	Listen from the inside of sensation.
3:23.3	Give the body time and space to organize in the way it wants to according to its own intelligence
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