Hello and in today's episode we're going to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the importance of continuity of

awareness specifically in meditation. More to come on that in a moment. First

let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. The Okay, so let's talk concentration. I think so many of the things that people are looking for, stress reduction, inner peace,

more calm, better listening skills, all of these things could be accomplished with greater concentration.

And a lot of people go into a meditation practice looking for some of those things but also with the expectation

that concentration will develop and it does it is one of the things that happens in

the meditation practice.

But concentration will only develop

with continuity of awareness.

Meaning, if you're doing the meditation, let's say you're focusing on your breath, you're focusing on your breath for 30 seconds and then the mind wanders off for 20 seconds and then you come back and you get a little bit of breath focus and the mind

wanders off for a while again. The longer those gaps and the more frequent those

gaps, the less you're going to develop concentration, which might seem pretty straightforward.

But if a lot of us look at our meditation practices, well, a lot of that time can be spent

off mind wandering and little doses of, okay okay now I'm here right now and

where the acceleration of the practice really starts to happen is when you can

catch your mind wandering sooner and bring it back sooner.

And I would argue that many people who haven't seen advancements in their meditation practice,

or a sense of it deepening or something shifting or really deep

states of peace and ease and relaxation all that move through the body.

If you haven't experienced that in your meditation practice,

there's a good chance you haven't gotten to this place yet

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