Resting With The Senses
1) Resting with the senses. Sensing deeply into the body with the Breath. Directing the Breath to release tension and pain with various breath and visualisation techniques.
2) Resting with the impermanent nature of Sound and attending to severe pain meditation. (33 mins)
3) Coming to rest with our present experience through the five senses. Immersing in senses to observe levels, depth and qualities. Curiosity, Love, Enjoyment of what is present. Gratitude for what we have in this moment. (25mins – sorry this was meant to be 15mins but it’s very difficult at this level to lead a 15minute meditation. You can of course start to lead yourself now if you would like to do short ones!)
4) How well do you listen? This is an example of deep transformational listening – listening with deep presence. A short soundscape practice with a short introduction. (Meditation flows in from about 4mins:30secs and is approx 15mins long).
It may be useful as a reminder here to note the 4 modes of listening:
Looking as if listening – pretending and nodding in all the right places!
Self Referential Listening (more predominant in females) – adding in own self experiences to validate the speaker’s story
‘Fix it Listening (more predominant in males) – listening purely with the intention of fixing the other person’s problem
Deep Transformational Listening – providing and ‘holding’ an open space in which you listen deeply, dropping into the actual sounds and words with presence and attention purely in and on the moment, without feeling the need to do any of the above. Listening to what the speaker says – and often more importantly – is avoiding saying. What is avoided is often the real crux of the problem! Mind the gaps! Can you feel the emotions underlying the problem, underneath the surface layer of words? Emotions (Energy in Motion) are where the problem lies…the connections between things; not the things/people themselves. How we relate to a problem is the key to how to change it.