Stillness in the Breath -- Advanced Meditation

Meditation Oasis

Mary and Richard Maddux

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2007

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This meditation will help you to experience silence and peace in life. It is a variation on the Breath Awareness Meditation in Episode 3. It's a more advanced meditation. If you have not already done meditations involving watching the breath, we recommend that you use the Breath Awareness Meditation for while before trying this. We'd love to hear from you -- visit www.meditationoasis.com and email us your questions and comments!

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0:00.0	Music
0:10.0	Music
0:20.0	Music
0:32.0	Welcome to MeditationOasis.com.
0:35.0	This is Mary Maddox.
0:37.0	Today's guided meditation is called stillness in the breath.
0:41.0	In this meditation we'll locate this silence in life and the gaps between the breath.
0:48.0	This meditation will probably work best if you've already done some sort of meditation that involves watching the breath.
0:55.0	If you haven't, you might want to listen to episode 3, the breath awareness meditation before trying this meditation.
1:06.0	So begin by getting comfortable and now close your eyes.
1:18.0	Notice how when you close your eyes there is a shift.
1:23.0	Just naturally the awareness starts to settle down.
1:30.0	Simply be present to what's occurring right now in this moment.
1:36.0	Not resisting anything.
1:41.0	Just being.
1:48.0	Simply notice what's going on.
1:57.0	When the mind is become absorbed in thought, just easily bring it back to the meditation.
2:09.0	Thoughts are part of meditation so we don't try to resist thoughts.
2:19.0	Just let them go the way they come.
2:27.0	So during this meditation first we'll bring our awareness to the breath and then we'll be bringing our awareness to the gaps between the breaths.
2:36.0	And when thoughts happen, it doesn't matter.
2:39.0	There may be thoughts going on along with this process.
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