Many people say that it’s hard to focus, hard to concentrate the mind. Most people are only fully present in their thoughts and actions for a tiny portion of each day. They can sustain deliberate awareness for a few seconds and then it begins to dissipate. It is one of the seven wonders of my world as a Meditation Teacher and Mindset Coach over many years, that we can still function as well as we do, given how lacking in focus, and how unconscious most of us are, most of the time. For a transcription of this Podcast visit Five Changes
What’s exciting to me now is how all the skills derived from my work as a hypnotherapist, and NLP trainer, complement my meditation teaching and practice. There is a relationship between goals and the goal-less state, and understanding that relationship gives you a bigger vision and a clearer view.
Michele Benzamin-Miki speaks about her own experience of meditation as a vehicle towards clarity, joy, focus, and stability, and tells a story about walking meditation.
Michele Benzamin-Miki Aikido is a non violent martial art. On the mat we are constantly in situations of potential conflict within the safe container of training. We get check to our aggression from the minute we walk in the dojo; which means that you can’t just say, “You’re making me angry,” or “This situation is making me angry.” ….
Guided meditation from Michele Benzamin-Miki. Recorded on retreat at Manzanita Village.
