A One-Minute Meditation to Focus Your Mind

This guided meditation is meant to be done in the middle of the day, wherever you may be.

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In mindfulness practice, you’ll often hear the term “natural awareness.” By “natural awareness” we mean the awareness that just comes with being a human being. It’s free from judging and characterizing—it’s just noticing and sensing the world. It’s done when you open your eyes, you see something, or you hear something, or you touch something. So, the simplest awareness that just comes as part of the equipment of being alive, without a lot of filters around it or judgments. You can trust that it’s always there.

By “natural awareness” we mean the awareness that just comes with being a human being. It’s free from judging and characterizing—it’s just noticing and sensing the world.

A Practice to Focus Your Mind That You Can Do Anywhere   One Minute Guided Meditation with Barry Boyce 1:00

This is a short practice intended for doing in the middle of the day, wherever you are out in the world, for settling. It’s done with eyes open. So let’s begin.

Settle into your seat. Begin by taking a seat, or if necessary, standing. The important thing is to feel where your…