Here is a quote from the talk preceding the guided meditations:

"Unfortunately, it is a bit of a binary thing.

Either you develop the skills to recover your attention from the largely unwanted and unhelpful, repetitive, persistent thought patterns. Or you become a slave to a narrative that you've adopted in your mind."

We train ourselves to break out of this repetitive narrative by learning to return to the breath.

Returning to the Breath happens after many years of practising the mindfulness meditation called Following the Breath.

When we meditate, we are training our awareness to break into the mind loops and return us to the present moment.

This isn't a battle against mind wandering. It is empowerment. With this practice, we get to choose how to focus our minds. We no longer slavishly follow an internal narrative, which is often a reflection of the external cultural narrative.

Training ourselves to break into the narrative and return to presence frees our minds. 

This podcast is a recording of a live-streamed guided meditation class taught in The Meditation Course - four weekly live guided meditation classes for the price of a weekly Starbucks latte. Join us at:

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