How to Meditate — Day 13 Body Wisdom

How to Meditate by Jeff Warren on the Calm App

Day 13: Body Wisdom

Training the clarity muscle leads to fascinating insights. One of these is how even sensations that seem permanent are constantly changing. This insight into impermanence comes as a huge relief, especially when you are dealing with physical or emotional discomfort. In fact, one deep secret of meditation is that if you direct attention to any sensation with enough clarity and enough patience, it can start to break up.

This meditation explores the body. There is a lot of source of sensations in the body, the touch of clothing/air, pressure against the chair/cushion, heart beat, breath, muscle, pain, heat, warmth, etc.

Choose a sensation in the body and make it the homebase for the meditation. Get curious about the body sensation as if you are feeling it for the first time. As you are doing it, see if you can get as clear as possible about it feels. You don’t care how it is intellectually and you care only how it feels.

As you go deep into the sensation in the meditation, see if you able to notice the smallest change of the sensation.

It’s OK to notice the sensation is stable and still.