Ground Level: Recent Episodes

Laurie Brown

When you feel like the ground is disappearing below your feet, we're here for you - down at ground level.

Laurie Brown has been meditating for almost 20 years. She considers herself a seeker on the path... is that you, too? With original music by Joshua Van Tassel, Ground Level is a way for you to have some company on your journey. More questions than answers, let's sit together and see what comes up.

Guided meditations released every Monday, with interviews and grounding thoughts published at any time.

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Shifting down through layers of feeling. November 16th, 2022

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Getting under the stories we tell ourselves.

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What are we missing?

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What happens when you come to meditation with no expectations?

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Look around - you have another brain in there

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What's in the space between thoughts?

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Building strength in awareness.

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The part of you that your mind cannot alter.

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The consciousness we all share.

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 How we move into spaciousness.

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Change the shape of your world.

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   Can you bring your whole heart to this meditation?

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Can you generate some compassion...for yourself?

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What if gratitude is simply a level of attention? What if that amazing feeling was available to you at any time? On any day?

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Listening to that quiet voice.

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We pour gasoline on our anxieties with thoughts and stories.

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There's you...and then there is your awareness. You are both in this together.

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   What happens when you come to meditation with no expectations?

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Why does our mind work so hard to keep us out of the present moment...the only moment we have?

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Sit back and watch the show.

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Where Emotion Lives

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How we move into spaciousness.

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Resistance takes many forms.

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Joining the lightness of now.

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Letting everything in

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We are engaged in a constant struggle with our mind. What happens when you stop?

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Some assembly may be required.

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Letting go of the conversation in your mind.

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An interview with Misha Glouberman about the art of the difficult conversation.

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Bringing your body online.

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Looking at awareness itself.

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How music supports your practise.

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Attention: the gateway to compassion.

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Be the passenger, not the driver.

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Put a label on it and move on.

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Breath is all you need.

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Just sit, everything else will happen by itself.

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Regaining ground.

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When meditation becomes a vigil.

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See what shifts when awareness steps up.

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Invite everything in to your meditation.

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No judgement, no commentary, no analysis. Just watch the show roll by.

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Tuning into the space between thoughts.

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Relaxing into your natural awareness.

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The consciousness we all share.

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Getting a better view.

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Get here quick.

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There is nothing missing in this moment.

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Imagine feeling satisfied with the moment you are in.

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Letting go starts with a filling up.

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Change the lens. Go wide.

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Getting there without a map.

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   Are you willing to let go of what you know?

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   Dipping your toe into overwhelming emotions.

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You are not separate from the world around you.

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The part of you that your mind cannot alter.

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   How the sound of the bell clears a path for your meditation

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   Who built the box?

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   Internal conversations: the show that never ends.

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You are a faceless wonder.

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Just showing up would feel so good.

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   The many ways we try to keep control of our meditation

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   Put aside who you think you are for 20 minutes.

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When head and hands work together.

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What happens when you come to meditation with no expectations?

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To guide or not to guide.

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   Covid levels the playing field.

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Tracking down your illusive awareness.

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   From shutting down to opening up. A daily ritual.

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No answers to be found, we are living in the age of questions.

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An open or shut case. What vision does for meditation.

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Your awareness is always there with you.

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The wisdom of knowing yourself better.

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   Pandemic life shines a klieg light on our shortcomings.

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   Look around - you have another brain in there.

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We pour gasoline on our anxieties with thoughts and stories.

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How to describe what is being asked of us during the pandemic.

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Can you bring your whole heart to this meditation?

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Can you bring your whole heart to this meditation?

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How to describe what is being asked of us during the pandemic.

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Be still, breath, pay attention to your awareness. That’s it.

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Let your intention start here…for 20 minutes

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   Letting go of the urge to fix... everything

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   Creating space around anxiety.

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   What does this COVID experience remind you of?

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   Thoughts and sleepiness are along for the ride in meditation. What's awareness to do??

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What happens when we shift from thinking to feeling?

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How to see wonder while standing still… to invite it into your bubble to break open the day.

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   There's you...and then there is your awareness. You are both in this together.

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   Where will you find your centre point? Right in the heart of your awareness.

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The hug you’ve been aching for, for months, is filled with everything you’ve felt since the pandemic began - but haven’t said out loud.

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   What's in the space between thoughts?

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   Can you generate some compassion...for yourself?

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These days we veer between doom and wonder - oversteering to keep from crashing. We need to learn to turn into the skid.

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   What motivates you to want to sit for 20 minutes?

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Include it all... bone, blood, and breath... working from the skin inwards. No anatomy knowledge required.

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You can't change what the world throws at every day ...but your headspace heading into it?  There, you have some agency.

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Pack your bags. What would it feel like to jettison future worries and past regrets?

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Think of your thoughts as a cunning form of resistance...trying to undermine where you want your attention to be.

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   Finding new pleasures in a semi-lockdown world.  I've made a list.

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Unnoticed emotions keep us on the run. What would it be like to stop running?