Jack Kornfield, a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, leads a peaceful meditation aimed mostly at people beginning to practice. The focus is feeling the breath as it rises and falls.
This peaceful meditation by Jack Kornfield is a recording from Spirit Rock’s Monday night sitting group. It suits beginners and focuses on some of the most direct mindfulness meditation techniques.
Focusing on the Present Moment
Simple techniques such as breath awareness, full body awareness, and compassionate practice can help us tune into the present moment and into the peaceful stillness that rests beneath all of our movements, both mental and physical. A peaceful meditation like this is one way to begin relating to our emotions, our thoughts, and our physical experience of the world in new ways, and it may help ease whatever stress or tension we may be carrying. Practicing consistently tends to make these effects easier to notice.
Developing Your Personal Practice
As you develop your personal mindfulness practice, it can be useful to explore a wide range of different mindfulness exercises to better understand the different techniques available. You might also consider enrolling in the free 28-Day Mindfulness Challenge, which provides daily practices of different themes and focuses, including relaxation, compassion practices, open awareness, body awareness, breath awareness, and more.
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