Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris - Increasing your Attention Awareness | Bonus Meditation with Rev. angel Kyodo Williams

Episode Date: October 16, 2020

In this potent meditation on one point, hone your capacity to direct your attention where you want without shutting out the rest of the world. Good News everyone, our Free Election Sanity meditation challenge starts in the Ten Percent Happier app on Tuesday, October 27th. You've probably heard me mentioning this challenge throughout our election sanity podcast series. The plan is to take what we've learned from the podcast and do a meditation challenge based off of all the wisdom bombs our teachers have been dropping here. Download the Ten Percent Happier app today to join the challenge. And starting on October 27th, you'll literally be meditating with thousands of other people who have chosen to sit down with us for a few minutes a day and inject some sanity back into this bananas election season. About Rev. angel Kyodo williams: Rev. angel Kyodo williams is the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace. She’s the Founder of the Center for Transformative Change in Berkeley and credited with developing fearlessMeditation, fearlessYoga and Warrior Spirit Training. Rev. angel is the world's 2nd female Zen teacher of African descent. For over 20 years, she has been putting into practice her unwavering belief that the key to transforming society is transforming our inner lives. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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bananas election season Okay, having said all of that. Let's get to today's bonus meditation from my friend the Reverend Angel Kyoto Williams. This was recorded as part of our election sanity series. Reverend Angel was a guest on Monday's episode, which was part two of our election sanity series on the podcast. And today she offers us some guidance on increasing our ability to put our attention on what she describes as our attention awareness. She will explain that. Here we go over to Reverend Angel of Kyoto Williams. Greetings. My name is Reverend Angel of Kyoto Williams. And I'm going to share with you a meditation that I call point meditation, or sometimes just the point.

Point meditation is pretty helpful because you can use it at other times than formal meditation, including in this particular time where many of us find things pretty challenging. So I'm going to start by inviting you to just cast your eyes downward. You don't have to have your eyes closed, but if you prefer them to be closed, you can do that. And as you begin, start taking a little bit of notice of your body. And then take a little bit of notice of your emotional state. Maybe you brought something in that is particularly difficult that you're working with, or just the state of the world in general has been particularly challenging for you. on your heart, and also on your mind. What is your mental state?

You're feeling a little bit of agitation, Now allow your attention to come onto your breath, noticing breath is as it rests in your belly. Notice how the belly moves in and out. You're going to place your attention, awareness on your breath as it rests in your low belly. Some people call back the core and it's just a few inches or so below your navel. And we'll call that location the point. It is the point of our meditation, and everything else is other than point. So the meditation is pretty simple. Whenever you find your attention, awareness at other than point, you'll simply gently Just allowing your breath to flow in and out naturally, perhaps having awareness of the As in breath, an out breath flows naturally, we can let our attention awareness rest in the low belly. Open your eyes completely. Thank you for spending this time with me. Hope to see you again soon. Open your eyes completely.

Thank you for spending this time with me. Hope to see you again soon. Big thanks to Reverend Angel and a reminder again that the free election sanity meditation challenge starts in the 10% happier app on Tuesday, October 27th. Download the app today and join the challenge. Thousands of people will be sitting down every day to meditate for a few minutes to restore some level of sanity at a really tricky moment. We'll see you on Monday with a fresh episode.

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