Learn Powerful Meditation Techniques - Alan Watts Meditation Hack (Awakening The Mind)

Episode Date: January 30, 2023

The Easiest Way To Get Into The Meditative StateA direct, straightforward approach to how to experience the present moment in our everyday lives and a way to practice from renowned spiritual teacher Alan Watts.Instead of trying to control your thoughts, notice them. Observe them. Are they happy, positive thoughts? Or are they harmful, depressing thoughts?One of the others isn't bad. It's essential to observe them. Think of yourself sitting on a mountain by the highway and your thoughts being cars that go by. The main thing I learned from the Alan Watts meditation trick is that meditation is an experience, not a task. It's about spending time alone with your thoughts without any judgment. This quick Alan Watts meditation should help you understand what is happening inside you._________________________________________________________________________________________A Life Of Transformation Begins With Action...GET STARTED TODAY WITHOUT ANY RISK!Get 7 Days of Unlimited Access Right NowFor Free When You Download Our App! There are seven stages of meditation instruction on a single platform. Live monthly Zoom coaching and training sessions. Get unlimited free access to the Meditation Life Skills app for 7 days by downloading it now! Visit MeditationLifeSkills.com For More Information. _________________________________________________________________________________________If done overtime consistently, you can learn to be less judgmental of yourself and others. You don't want to get too attached to anyone's negative thoughts.Your increased awareness can help you tons throughout the rest of your day. The next time you have a big meeting at work or a date with someone special, you can observe your thoughts."Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. And therefore, if you meditate for an ulterior motive — that is to say, to improve your mind, to improve your character, to be more efficient in life — you've got your eye on the future and you are not meditating!" - Alan Watts"Be the person your soul wishes you to be." - Don WeyantOffering step-by-step instructions for beginners. Try binaural beats, solfeggio frequencies, guided meditations, and healing meditation music. Our top-rated podcast, with 34 million downloads and 100,000 Spotify followers, explores the profound benefits of meditation. Visit Our Main Website: https://www.MeditationLifeSkillsPodcast.comPodcast Disclaimers: This podcast is not medical advice or a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment. This podcast needs expert advice and independent verification to reach conclusions. Content-related losses are not our responsibility. AI language models were used to create podcast content for information and enjoyment alone.

We appreciate your interest in today's meditation life skills podcast. We sincerely grateful for your support. Well, now, the easiest way to get into the meditative state is to begin by listening. If you simply close your eyes and allow yourself to hear all the sounds that are going on around you, just listen to the general hum and buzz of the world. as if you were listening to music don't try to identify the sounds you're hearing don't put names on them

simply allow them to play with your eardrums and let them go in other words you could put it let your ears hear whatever they want to hear don't judge the sounds there are no as it were proper sounds or improper sounds and it doesn't matter if somebody coughs or sneezes or

Drop something. It's all just sound and if I am talking to you right now and you're doing this I want you to listen to the sound of my voice just as if it were noise Don't try to make any sense out of what I'm saying because your brain will take care of that automatically you don't have to try to understand anything, just listen to the sound. As you pursue that experiment, you will very naturally find that you can't help naming sounds, identifying them, that you will go on thinking, that is to say, talking to yourself inside your head automatically. But it's important that you don't try to repress those thoughts by forcing them out of your mind,

because that will have precisely the same effect as if you were trying to smooth rough water with a flat iron. You're just going to disturb it all the more. What you do is this. As you hear sounds coming up in your head, thoughts. You simply listen to them as part of the general noise going on, just as you would be listening to the sound of my voice, or just as you would be listening to cars going by

or to birds chattering outside the window. So look at your own thoughts as just noises. And soon you will find that the so-called outside world and the so-called inside world come together. They are a happening. Your thoughts are a happening, just like the sounds going on outside. And everything is simply a happening.

and all you're doing is watching it. Now in this process, another thing that is happening that is very important is that you're breathing. And as you start meditation, you allow your breath to run, just as it wills. In other words, don't do at first any breathing exercise, but just watch your breath breathing the way it wants to breathe.

And notice a key curious thing about this, you say in the ordinary way, I breathe, because you feel that breathing is something that you are doing voluntarily, just in the same way as you might be walking or talking. But you will also notice that when you are not thinking about breathing, your breathing goes on just the same. So the curious thing about breath is that it can be looked at both as a voluntary and an involuntary action. You can feel on the one hand I am doing it and on the other hand it is happening to me and that is why breathing is a most important part of meditation because it is going to show you as you become aware of your breath

that the hard and fast division that we make between what we do on the one hand and what happens to us on the other is arbitrary so that as you watch your breathing you will become aware that both the voluntary and the involuntary aspects of your experience are all one happening now that may at first seem a little scary because you may think well am i just the puppet of a happening, the mere passive witness of something that's going on completely beyond my control, or on the other hand, am I really doing everything that's going along? Well, if I were, I should be God. That would be very embarrassing, because I would be in charge of everything.

That would be terribly responsible position. The truth is a matter, as you will see it, is that both things are true. You can see it that everything is happening to you. and on the other hand you're doing everything for example it's your eyes that are turning the sun into light it's the nerve ends in your skin that are turning electric vibrations in the air into heat and temperature it's your eardrums that are turning vibrations in the air into sound

and in that way you are creating the world but when we're not talking about it when we're not philosophical philosophizing about it, then there is just this happening, this, and we won't give it a name. Now then, when you breathe for a while, just letting it happen and not forcing it in any way, you will discover a curious thing that without making any effort, you can breathe more and more deeply. In other words, supposing you simply are breathing out, and breathing out is important because it's the breath of relaxation as when we say and heave a sigh of relief. So when you are breathing out, you get the sensation that your breath is falling out, dropping, dropping, dropping out with the same sort of feeling you have as if you were settling down into an extremely comfortable. bed and you just get as heavy as possible and let yourself go and you let your breath go out in

just that way and when it's thoroughly comfortably out and it feels like coming back again you don't pull it back in you let it fall back in letting your lungs expand expand expand until they feel very comfortably full and you wait a moment and let it stay there and then once again you let it fall out and so in this way you will discover that your breath gets quite naturally easier and easier and slower and slower and more and more powerful so that with these various aids listening to sound your own interior feelings and thoughts, just as if they were something going on, not something you're doing but just happenings. And watching your breath as a happening that is neither voluntary nor involuntary, you are

simply aware of these basic sensations, then you begin to be in the state of meditation. But don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. worry about what progress you're making, just be entirely content to be aware of what is. Don't be terribly selective, particular say, I should think of this and not of that. Just watch whatever is happening.