#004: Sound-Focused Meditation

Today’s meditation focuses on the sounds around us, and on starting to develop a sense of open awareness. When we observe auditory sensations, we can begin to detach judgment from our experience, and simply listen.

I’m recording on the road, so apologies for the recording quality while I get the equipment dialed in!

11 minutes.

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#003: Heart-Focused Meditation

A meditation focused on the heart, and developing gratitude. Heart-focused meditations are often referred to as “Loving-Kindness” or Metta meditations, and appear in some form in nearly all styles of meditation. They are all about cultivating compassion, gratitude, and kindness for ourselves and others.

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11 minutes.

#002: Sensation-Focused Meditation

Today’s meditation uses the sensations in the body as the object of awareness. We’ll prepare for that work with some brief relaxation and breath work, which you’ll notice becoming a regular part of the practice.

Observing sensations in the body is a common technique used in a variety of meditation styles, including Vipassana and Mindfulness meditation, and is particularly effective for reducing stress and excess mental activity.

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10 minutes.

#001: Breath-Focused Meditation

Welcome to Meditate With Max! In this first episode we’ll explore the breath, the foundation of most meditation practices. It can be very difficult to start a regular meditation practice, so I hope this helps you on your way.

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11 minutes.

Wolves and Fluidity

There’s a beautiful ancient proverb I think about a lot. It’s about these wolves in your head, and how it’s natural for everyone to have thoughts they like and thoughts they don’t like, and that the ones that stick are like the wolf you feed. Maybe you know it?

I’ve been spending a lot of time with those wolves lately, getting to know them and feeding the wrong one a lot of the time, because, hey, it’s a wolf and it seems like you should feed it instead of getting eaten by it.

I’ve also been thinking that maybe there aren’t just these two wolves, the one you should feed and the one you shouldn’t. That maybe there are whole packs of wolves, colonies of wolves, non-endangered thriving populations of wolves. And some of them are kind of mean and some of them are kind of friendly, and some of them are good at art and some of them are good at caring, and some just lie in the sun all day because the sun is wonderful. An ecosystem of mind-wolves.

They all live there and some of them are well-fed, but even the ones that you try not to feed at all never go away completely. And that with so many wolves to choose from, we become fluid. We are everything and anything. We don’t have boundaries. Or at least those boundaries are temporary, because we’ll all be stars again someday. And there is even a wolf who is the master of your childhood dream, whether it’s drawing or firefighting or having an amazing family, and if you keep putting food out long enough, eventually she will come around. And there is a wolf who is well-adjusted and comfortable in the world, and she will, too.

We are always becoming. We are blossoming in every direction. Even when it feels like we’re not.