We'd like to encourage you to increase your sitting time to 5 minutes for these next few days. Stay with sensation in the body, really sink into what's actually showing up in the body, explore, be curious, stay with it.
Reflect on how you respond to increasing your time, see if anything changes or shifts. What challenges from the previous weeks continue to show up? Just notice.
A wonderful and encouraging reminder from Norman Fischer
"In formal sitting we practice the journey of return in a literal way, returning awareness to the breath, to the body, to the present moment, whenever it strays away. Most simply understood, formal sitting meditation is the effort to return to the concrete feeling of being alive, a feeling that is always with us, but that we almost never notice, so preoccupied are we with our problems and issues.
Meditation in general, and formal sitting meditation in particular, is radically simple. There's almost nothing to it. Letting go, coming back - that's all. The only difference between meditation and non-meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything; instead, we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need."
Remember to thank yourself for practicing !! Each time you come back to this moment is a celebration!
A wonderful and encouraging reminder from Norman Fischer
"In formal sitting we practice the journey of return in a literal way, returning awareness to the breath, to the body, to the present moment, whenever it strays away. Most simply understood, formal sitting meditation is the effort to return to the concrete feeling of being alive, a feeling that is always with us, but that we almost never notice, so preoccupied are we with our problems and issues.
Meditation in general, and formal sitting meditation in particular, is radically simple. There's almost nothing to it. Letting go, coming back - that's all. The only difference between meditation and non-meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything; instead, we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need."
Remember to thank yourself for practicing !! Each time you come back to this moment is a celebration!
PS. Hey, you can feed the fish - just click your curser in the fish pond and see what happens!
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