Welcome to Meditation Oasis. This is Mary Maddox. You can visit us at meditationoasis.com.

This meditation is about the present moment.

There may be thoughts about the present or future. That doesn't matter. It isn't a matter of

whether or not there are thoughts about the present or future. Those will continue.

Thoughts are just a part of the stream of life energy. They come and they go. What enables

us to experience the present moment is to be in a sense not engaged with the meaning of those

thoughts. It's a very subtle point. The present moment is all that there is. And so experience

of the present moment is the awareness of what is always here, eternally present, constant.

And it's not awareness of something. It's simply a kind of knowingness, a knowingness of what is,

a knowingness of the basic energy of life. You can do this meditation with the eyes opened or closed.

Get into a position that's comfortable where you can just relax completely.

Simply notice what's being experienced right now.

Let your awareness be open. Not focused on anything in your experience.

And that open awareness, everything is naturally noticed.

When we notice something, we don't focus on it or think about it or become involved with it.

It simply moves in and out of our experience. So remaining with relaxed, open attention.

There will be sensations going on in your body, sounds that you hear, if your eyes are open,

you'll be seeing things. You may feel some emotion,

and thoughts will come and go.

Perhaps you'll notice the nature of the thoughts. Perhaps you'll notice that the thoughts

are about what you're experiencing. Or perhaps the thoughts are about something else entirely,

something that you're going to do, your shopping list, something that happened.

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