Meditation is the direct experience of your own mind.  For most of our waking lives we experience only the thoughts, emotions and sensations that fill our minds, an ever-changing stream of distractions – joyful and sad, welcome and unwelcome. 

We live in a highly extroverted world.  For most of our waking life our attention is directed outward – to the workplace, to the television screen, to newspapers, films, videos to music, noise traffic and to the voices and demands of other people. 

The whole nature is characterized by movement and stillness-the movement of wind and water, the stillness of rocks and great works of art; the vigorous up thrust of buds of spring, the dormancy of seeds in the ground during the winter. 

These introductory meditations should have helped you feel more integrated as a person, with mind, body and emotions more sensitive toward each other.  They should also have helped you to notice that in reality mind, body and emotions constantly influence and affect each other. 

It is valuable to see what full attention to our environment feels like.  Read the meditation and try it outdoors.

This meditation is intended to help you become aware of tensions and bad posture while experiencing stillness.

Emotions are what give life its colour and its many ups and downs.  Mediation puts us in touch with our emotions and helps us to handle them effectively whatever they are.

The following are designed to help you develop the technique of dealing with distractions.

We live in a time-haunted world, but “time” is simply a concept invented to try to explain the process of change, or as Buddhism calls it, of impermanence.  Nothing remains the same.