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meditation

Meditation Basics

Eight sittings that teach attention, without needing to empty your mind.

Meditation Basics
A practical, secular introduction. The instruction is simple, the sittings start at five minutes, and the course spends most of its time on the part everyone struggles with: what to do when you notice you have drifted. No cushion, incense or belief required.

What you'll study

9 lessons · 1h 43m · 4 contact hours

Sitting

  • What meditation is not
    Free preview
    8 min
  • Posture and timing10 min
  • Five-minute breath meditation8 min

Working with the mind

  • Ten-minute breath meditation12 min
  • Restlessness, sleepiness, doubt12 min
  • Body scan, fifteen minutes16 min

Keeping it

  • Loving-kindness practice15 min
  • Meditation off the cushion10 min
  • Ten days, five minutes12 min