I Should Be Meditating with Alan Klima: Guided Mindfulness Meditation and Discussion

I Should Be Meditating with Alan Klima: Guided Mindfulness Meditation and Discussion episodes:

• 01.26.2017

  Mindful Choice Guided Meditation

  There is a sweet feeling inside, the feeling of being alive, which everyone can contact. We can get better at that as we practice, but it all comes down to a simple choice, an act of choosing what we know...

  
• 12.29.2016

  Trusting Your Intuition to Meditate

  Sometimes indecision stops us in our tracks. This simple guided meditation goes directly into that, to enhance your sense of power and ability to follow your heart, right at the micro-level of where indecisiveness arises. After each long thought phases...

  
• 12.21.2016

  Being Present Before Things End

  How can we feel present in our life, and stay that way? In this talk we explore what it means to be mindful beyond trying to remember to “pay attention." Typically, we'll "remember" to be present for something when it...

  
• 11.23.2016

  Appreciating Breath and Presence

  Using the flavor of appreciation in your attention makes for a wonderful experience where you are grateful for meditation and grateful for life.

  
• 11.15.2016

  Your Instant Shift to the Heart of Meditation

  This guided meditation is a pointing and a training in shifting to the heart of meditation, the source that keeps it going and alive and growing. For just a few moments here and there when the opportunity strikes cast aside all concerns for only just...

  
• 11.11.2016

  How to Get to the Next Level in Meditation

  Does your Meditation practice get stale? Does it still grow and grow in depth? Should you just accept plateaus? No, don't fall for that. This talk is about real change, and what is the one thing that you MUST have...

  
• 10.20.2016

  Soaking In What It Is To Realize

  In this meditation we bring our attention to ‘being present.’ without assuming what that is. What does it really feel like to be present now? What is it like when we recognize our presence, and attention is close to us,...

  
• 10.13.2016

  The Inner Channel and Caring about Meditation

  In this meditative talk we look closer into how meditation provides us with the tools to recognize that there are different channels – so to speak – that we can tune in to. Through an exercise of self-inquiry we sense...

  
• 10.10.2016

  The Inner Channel and Caring about Meditation

  In this meditative talk we look closer into how meditation provides us with the tools to recognize that there are different channels – so to speak – that we can tune in to. Through an exercise of self-inquiry we sense...

  
• 08.19.2016

  Inserting Intention into the Mix of Meditation

  Inject power of intention into your meditation. Intention is a temporary state where we have a feeling like we can choose. In this guided meditation we repeatedly exercise the ability to insert intention into the mix of meditation at the...

  
• 08.04.2016

  Talk on Ekhart Tolle Power of Now – Part 3: What Keeps Us From Harming Others

  The third part of the talk series on Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. In this conversation we delve into how our state of being present relates to arising negative or violent feelings and reactions. We ask what is our...

  
• 07.25.2016

  Talk on Ekhart Tolle Power of Now – Part 2

  The second installment of a series of talks on Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. Alan Klima discusses questions sent by listeners regarding Eckhart Tolle’s book. Join in for an interesting discussion reflecting on trust. What does it mean to...

  
• 07.12.2016

  Talk on Ekhart Tolle The Power of Now

  Part one of a series, listeners submit questions and Alan takes up some of the top things that come to mind when reading this book. The talk delves into questions like what relation our past history has to who and...

  
• 06.27.2016

  Meditation on After Thought

  In this mindfulness meditation session learn to notice thoughts and mental activity while developing your awareness for intentionally being present. Going from the tensions in the body and hectic mind activity to subtly playing with your inner mental attitude. Sometimes...

  
• 06.20.2016

  Pleasant Body

  Relax into this mindful body scan and start developing skills to make the experience of the body joyful and interesting to play with. We move our attention through every inch of our body kindly noticing and becoming aware of what...

  
• 06.16.2016

  Training with Two Kinds of Thoughts

  Have you ever wanted to quiet your thoughts? To be able to silence all distractions, negative thinking, or simply noise in your head? This talk on mindfulness meditation as well as a meditation practice helps you develop a technique to...

  
• 06.13.2016

  59: Release into the Abdominal Breath

  Recognize the quality of attention, how experiencing the breath shifts and changes things so easily around. Release into the sensation of breath and allow thoughts, feelings, and tensions to be present while the breath becomes the center of attention. Explore...

  
• 06.09.2016

  Talk 9: Two Great Skills in Meditation

  A talk and a meditation. A contemplation of life. Use this training to get acquainted with and understand in your bones two meditation skills that are most important to finding a natural way to practice meditation, not forced, not pressured....

  
• 06.06.2016

  Quickfire Meditation

  It's great to train the attention to be fast and agile and play a kind of game to see how fast you can bring the attention home, or how fast you can hop off the train of the thought. It's...

  
• 06.02.2016

  58: Dwelling in Presence

  What is it like to be present? In this guided meditation practice of looking inwardly, you return to that sense of presence to find another way of feeling, another way of being. Dwelling in presence, recognizing it, checking it out....

  
• 05.30.2016

  57: Guided Training in Two Meditation Skills

  [Podcast] Life is constantly in flux, often presenting changing situations you need to adapt to. This guided meditation is a practice in two (or maybe three) techniques for training to become flexible, adaptable. Understanding that peace of mind can already happen....

  
• 05.26.2016

  56: Awareness of both Thoughts and Presence

  In this whole world that is your life there are thoughts and busyness, emotions and sensations, but there's also something else here. Something that is always present. This guided meditation points towards that awareness of life, living as you, and...

  
• 05.23.2016

  55: Hanging out with Yourself

  The pure pleasure of hanging out with yourself! Find the most direct way to enjoy the inwardness that meditating on a regular basis provides. Through this guided lesson you will get closer to that inner refuge that is within us....

  
• 05.19.2016

  54: Appreciating Presence

  Thoughts and worries can seem to distract you. By practicing this simple exercise you are reminded of the power of feeling your breath. Staying with the breath allows your inner mental attitude to brighten. Appreciating your presence. Being at home...

  
• 05.15.2016

  Meditation on Loyalty to Life

  When we think about life we often make judgements about it, have ideas of how it is, or how it should be. In this guided meditation we commit to life as it already is. Through this practice we move from...

  
• 01.31.2016

  Relax with the Breath All Over the Body

  Use this guided meditation to connect with the breath in all kinds of ways you haven't tried before. Playing with the Breath hones our skills in relating to what feelings and emotions arise in our experience later. Practice now to...

  
• 01.30.2016

  Pleasant Breath Now For Hard Times Later

  There is a powerful breathing technique for facing hard times, but you must practice it now if you want to use it later. It's not always a good idea to try and zap your problems with meditation while they are...

  
• 11.08.2015

  Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Breathing Meditation: Talk 17

  How should one breathe for panic attacks and how to breathe for regular worry? Panic Attacks and every day worry have some things in common, but also a big difference. We can learn a lot from panic attacks, whether we...

  
• 11.01.2015

  53: Guided Compassion Meditation Formula

  This classic formula for cultivating compassion is an excellent way to bring us back to the fact that mindfulness attention is a kind attention. It is also a great meditation to use at bedtime to sleep great!! Mindfulness is not a...

  
• 10.29.2015

  53: Guided Compassion Meditation

  This classic formula for cultivating compassion is an excellent way to bring us back to the fact that mindfulness attention is a kind attention. It is also a great meditation to use at bedtime to sleep great!! Mindfulness is not a...

  
• 10.26.2015

  52: Being Simply As You Are

  This guided meditation is very simple and short, giving you the space and pause to do nothing but remain as you are. Simply being is a refreshing, restful pause that brings us back to ourselves, from one point of view,...

  
• 10.22.2015

  Talk 16: Surrender or Self-Improvement?

  Meditation is about more than Self-Improvement. That is only its possible side-effect. If we bend meditation to our will and make it serve us, the only definite side-effect is frustration. At some point the meditator will have to make the...

  
• 10.19.2015

  50: Surrender to the Breath

  In this guided meditation on the breath the emphasis is on receptivity, sensitivity, and opening. By offering up the breath sensations to the world to which they belong, we also cultivate an attitude of allowing everything to be as it...

  
• 10.11.2015

  49: Playing with Being and Breathing

  If you play with the edge between conscious deliberate attention and open awareness, your meditation in enhanced so that you can quickly find yourself in a state of ease.

  
• 10.05.2015

  48: Breathing with Intention, and Not

  This breath meditation explores the difference between when we consciously, deliberately feel the breath, and when we let it go and allow it to appear by itself. These two flavors of attention are great to recognize, and are easier to...

  
• 09.29.2015

  47: Connecting the Breath with the Inner Mental Attitude

  A connection with the inner mental attitude is made, and then sustained, with this guided meditation that makes a sense of the inner mental attitude vivid and clear, and then helps you to maintain and sustain it. This is a...

  
• 09.22.2015

  46: Exploring the Breath from the Inside and Out

  This guided meditation begins with a 3 step settling process and then explores feelings of exchanging the breath between the interior feeling of alive presence, and the greater world beyond the body, surrounding the body. It contains a balance and...

  
• 09.18.2015

  45: Three Levels to Relax into Presence

  Whenever possible, it is very powerful to recognize and confirm our effortless and fundamental right-ness. Some meditators have yet to catch a whiff of this, while all of us can vary in how easily it comes forward to our attention....

  
• 09.17.2015

  44: Three Steps to Focus in on Your Presence

  This guided meditation training is a great introduction to a basic tool in the mindfulness toolkit. It pinpoints a three step process which you can use repeatedly to bring you to focus. Train this a few times with this audio...

  
• 09.15.2015

  Talk 15: It is Way Easier Than You Think

  Season 2 is Back with a Point that Cuts Straight at one of the Biggest Obstacles stopping us from getting what we want in meditation. It is a belief, a thought lodged in the mind, and if we just get...

  
• 10.27.2014

  43: Meditation for Seeing Beyond a Wandering Mind

  This guided contemplation points to something essential that every meditator must see and understand if they are to go beyond worry over wandering mind. There are many ways to deal with wandering thoughts, but the most important and most powerful...

  
• 10.18.2014

  Talk 14: Reality and Illusion in Meditation

  What does "Life is an Illusion Mean" and what does it have to do with your electricity bill? I mean, you have your real life, while there are many spiritual statements that seem to indicate there is an ultimate reality...

  
• 10.06.2014

  42: Quick Body Scan Guided Meditation

  Making the body more accessible to us gives us a base point with which we can get perspective on excessive thinking, explore our emotions, and get communication from our body that leads us in beneficial directions. The body scan opens...

  
• 10.03.2014

  Talk 13: Balance Striving and Being

  The huge question of how to balance our striving in meditation practice opens a whole lot of possible things to say. In this talk however one very important point is made that before trying to work all that out, it...

  
• 09.30.2014

  40: Feel Your Way into Your Being

  This guided meditation starts with a soothing breath to feel your way into the core of the breath-body and from your alive, sensitive presence, and then guides you to remain there, to enjoy your being now and to more easily...

  
• 09.26.2014

  Talk 11: Feel the Natural Joy

  There is a natural joy always here. Where is it? This question is an important one that requires radical honesty to answer, yet it is otherwise simple and natural to get into contact with this fount of aliveness.

  
• 09.22.2014

  38: Simply Being Short Meditation

  Without having to do very much at all, simply being as you are is a very powerful meditation that uses our intention and attention in just about the most skillful way possible, which is to say, in the slightest, easiest,...

  
• 09.19.2014

  Talk 10: The Quiet

  The real Quiet is not the physical quiet of sounds, nor is it even a quiet from thoughts or a quiet mind. What is it and how can we recognize it? This can be a sticky point for meditators, but...

  
• 09.15.2014

  36: The Vivid Body Scan

  This guided tour through the body sensitizes you to all the flavors of feeling in the body, and brings you to the vivid enjoyment of subtle breath sensations interacting with whole body sensations. This is a profoundly accessible and healing...

  
• 09.11.2014

  Live Call-in Show! Sept. 10, 2014

  The tensions between meditation and our natural state are explored through great questions about restlessness, how to begin a practice, and what the "inner mental attitude" is all about . This is the straight raw recording of our live online...