{"id":179,"date":"2012-12-07T04:54:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T04:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/?p=179"},"modified":"2012-12-07T04:54:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T04:54:25","slug":"new-resources-choiceless-awareness-warmup-and-choiceless-awareness-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/2012\/12\/07\/new-resources-choiceless-awareness-warmup-and-choiceless-awareness-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"New Resources: Choiceless-Awareness Warmup and Choiceless-Awareness Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just added two more resources to the website: the <a title=\"Choiceless Awareness Meditation Warmup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/media\/Choiceless_Awareness_Meditation_Warmup.mp3http:\/\/\">Choiceless-Awareness Meditation Warmup<\/a> and the <a title=\"Choiceless Awareness Meditation, Vipassana Meditation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/media\/Choiceless_Awareness_Meditation.mp3http:\/\/\">Choiceless-Awareness Meditation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We could categorize meditation in different ways, but today I\u2019ll make the distinction between concentration\/focused-attention practices and open-monitoring\/choiceless-awareness\/vipassana\/insight practices.<\/p>\n<p>As the name implies, concentration practices have you place and repeatedly return your wandering attention to an object of meditation. This may involve looking at an object, visualizing an image in your mind, or focusing on a sensation. The <a title=\"Short Sitting Meditation, Shamatha Meditation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/media\/Short_Sitting_Meditation.mp3http:\/\/\">Short Sitting Meditation<\/a> and <a title=\"Long Sitting Meditation, Shamatha Meditation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/media\/Long_Sitting_Meditation.mp3http:\/\/\">Long Sitting Meditation<\/a> (also known as Shamatha, or \u201ccalm abiding\u201d Meditation) on this website are concentration practices focused on breathing in the body. While we are placing our attention on an object of attention that is dynamic vs. static, this approach helps us get grounded, focused, and calm.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is important to build a foundation in concentration practice, and you can always return to a strict concentration practice for a particular sitting period or a longer stretch of time when you need to get more calm and focused. This approach, however, doesn\u2019t deepen mindfulness, and help you meet and digest more of your world and your experience. Consequently, I encourage people to eventually learn Choiceless-Awareness or Vipassana Meditation. (See the <a title=\"Choicelss Awareness Meditation Warmup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/media\/Choiceless_Awareness_Meditation_Warmup.mp3http:\/\/\">Choiceless-Awareness Warmup<\/a> and <a title=\"Choiceless Awareness Meditation, Vipassana Meditation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/media\/Choiceless_Awareness_Meditation.mp3http:\/\/\">Choiceless-Awareness Meditation<\/a> here). In this approach, we open up our awareness to allow whatever comes to our attention to be an object of meditation\u2014sensations, emotions, sounds, thoughts. This type of meditation allows for more insight, energy, inquiry, and engagement with the outside world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just added two more resources to the website: the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-formal-mindfulness-practices","category-mindfulness-practice-instructions-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}