The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Good morning everyone and a good day.

Nice to have the idea that I'm saying hello and greetings around the world.

And now is the time when that couldn't be done.

So I want to begin by saying that when we give mindfulness instructions or try to practice mindfulness,

that often people will try too much.

It's like you try now to make your mind be present or focus on the breath or do something like that.

And the mind wonders often we bring the mind back and bring my mind back.

And that can be done in a beautiful way or a monious way.

But often there can be a strain or a push or an effort to be mindful.

And there are other exercises that might evoke a more harmonious form of mindfulness.

A mindfulness that follows along and is there kind of as a support just comes along.

And it isn't that we're emphasizing mindfulness, but mindfulness is there.

It has to be there in other ways of being.

And the one I want to emphasize today is attunement.

And there's a practice of becoming attuned to our life, to our experience.

But for this morning in meditation, I'd like to emphasize attunement to oneself.

We sit down to be present for ourselves with ourselves, by ourselves.

To become attuned here to what's going on for us.

And there are some definitions of attunement.

And the ones that...

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