Podcasts from Manzanita Village: Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki
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“Do you have any idea how many people walk around kicking themselves everyday because they don’t meet their own best standards?”
“We can help you fix that!
“Picture a world in which the voices you hear inside your own head are expressing words of appreciation and inspiration, and you are feeling great about what you do.”
Intention and focus are central to meditation, and to live. It’s important to have both a big picture, an idea of our destination, as well as a sense of the smaller steps we will take in order to arrive there.
… My Japanese sword teacher taught non-violence. His movement looked so simple and fluid. But when I slowed down film I had taken of his kata movements I began to see the myriad deliberate subtle movements which together gave the appearance of simplicity and fluidity.
Clear Intention is More Important than you may Imagine [18:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
There are four “dignities’ or ‘noble postures’ in which it is possible to usefully engage in meditation: Sitting, Standing, Walking, and Lying Down.
Standing with your feet firmly placed, the body upright, balanced, aware of your breath and of the space above you, below you, and around you . . . .
This guided meditation, like the majority of these recordings was made at a Sunday morning meditation at Manzanita Village Retreat in Southern California.
… bring awareness to the subtle movement that you notice …
… the adjustments that the body makes to allow you to balance easily…
.. notice the fluidity in the joints of the the ankles, the knees, the hips …
.. notice each detail … and have awareness of the body as a whole, standing upright on the planet today …
“Seeing – hearing – sitting – touching” a traditional meditation which helps develop clarity and concentration. The focus shifts from the activity of seeing, to hearing, to the sense of the whole body sitting, to a specific sensation of contact, cycling through the Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic representation systems.
Once you get the general sense of each point of focus you can actually move quickly through each, just spending a moment to establish contact with the object of focus.
NLP-Meditation. Making use of anchors in meditation can allow you to change your experience, by changing how you process the associated internal images. Meditation doesn’t have to be hard. It’s actually as easy as you choose to make it.
Caitriona Reed: Meditation Instructions using Visual Submodalities [8:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download 
