Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety Part 2
Lesson 11 from: FAST CLASS: Meditation for Everyday LifeDavid Nichtern
Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety Part 2
Lesson 11 from: FAST CLASS: Meditation for Everyday LifeDavid Nichtern
Lesson Info
11. Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety Part 2
Lessons
Introduction - Why Meditate?
15:12 2How to Meditate - Taking Your Seat
12:59 3Placing Attention on Breath
04:32 4Labeling Thoughts as Thinking
06:35 5How to Meditate - Leaving Some Space
12:19 6Bringing Meditation Into Everyday Life
11:30 7Digging Into the Practice Part 2
05:51 8Obstacles Along the Way
08:29Obstacles Along the Way Part 2
08:59 10Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety
26:56 11Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety Part 2
06:28 12The True Meaning of Success
18:28 13The True Meaning of Success Part 2
03:40 14Developing Compassion for Ourselves & Others
04:39 15Compassion for Ourselves & Others Part 2
29:34 16Compassion and Mindfulness
26:27 17Compassion and Mindfulness Part 2
08:11 18Happiness and Joy
18:15 19Happiness and Joy Part 2
04:06 20How to Go Forward
10:59 21How to Go Forward Part 2
07:31Lesson Info
Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety Part 2
let's do do you feel like doing another like a positive contemplative practice? It's interesting, right, When we dwell on the stress and anxiety sort of conjures up one kind of awareness and now look at let's look at patients, right? So we now know how to go about doing these things. So we're gonna for you at home, we're going to do this as a meditative practice. But what we're drawing from is there are sort of six qualities that we consider highly virtuous qualities in the they're called perimeters in the tradition or sort of virtues that we can cultivate and lead towards a kind of more positive experience of living. And the first one we did was generosity, which is kind of the initial one. It's so essential to, you know, that notion of being willing to give and to yield and to offer both to ourselves and others. And the second one in this series is called discipline, you know, which is the idea of sort of proper application of form, you know? And the third one is patients, which, int...
erestingly enough is considered to be the opposite of aggression. That's how patients is defined. It's the opposite of aggression when we're aggressive. We don't have patients. We're just pushing our point on our agenda. So there is some kind of softening or non aggression in it. But why don't we take our seat? Everybody here and at home. And again, you can close your eyes. It's gonna be a guided meditation on patients. And for this just, you know, take a few breaths. There's no hurry to contemplate patients. Mm take our time, getting to it. Feel the space that we're in right now. That's the essence of patients. Is feeling the space you're in right now. Maybe let go of any kind of anticipation. Mhm. And now again, bringing to mind sort of recent interaction. So we can study it a little bit where we experienced in patients where we weren't patient and just, you know, recall what kind of your logic was at the time. What what were you kind of going like? Okay come on, hurry up, let's get this over with. You know that kind of, what was the logic of why you were in a hurry to get through with this particular experience? What was about that existence stretching out and taking time? Were you resistant to? Was it kind of sense of efficiency or anxiety about it ever getting done at all? Was it that you felt? I have so many other things to do. I want to knock this one off. And also a feeling of did it knock you off balance? Did you feel like you lost your balance by kind of pushing and needing to get the thing done with or was it a correction and how skillful was your action as a result? Did your impatience increase the skillful nous with which you dealt with the situation the efficiency or did it actually make you less efficient and less effective? What was the outcome of your impatience? And now flipping that around, contemplating the quality of patients? What does that feel like? What does it feel like to be patient? Does it seem limiting in some way or does it seem expansive? If you imagine yourself as being profoundly patient, what would that look like? What would it liberate you from? Is there a freeing quality to the quality of patients? Is there some kind of opening expansiveness to it? Is it a attribute or a handicap the way you're framing it? Think about somebody else expressing true patients in your life and what's your response to that? I'm not talking about a sleepiness here and kind of we'll get there some sweet day, but there genuinely have the quality of patients as you visualize it being completely full blown positive quality. What can you think of somebody who has, who embodies that for you? And what does that really feel like to you? Do you appreciate? You admire? Are you intimidated by it and now visualizing yourself as sort of importing that quality of patients? What would you look like with more of that quality developed? What would you feel like? How would you feel different? And then begin to just let that dissolve this little inquiry dissolve into space. You come back into the room, you just let go come back to a sort of simple sense of being present and we could maybe explore that a little bit together.
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