Stilla Meditation

If you were an alien that have never even seen earth before, much less a human. What would it be like to wake up in this human body? Let's experience the body again with fresh eyes, as a completely new experience.

In-between the thoughts are silence. Abide in that silence.

Today we explored listening to sounds just as sounds. "Let them play with your eardrum and let them go". Inspired by Alan Watts.

Help your body relax by giving it your attention

Beauty is not a quality of the object, it's a quality of the attention that is perceiving the object. Beautiful, beauty full. Attention filled with beauty. Attention that experiences everything as beautiful.

Today we mix it up a bit with a breathing exercise. It's guided to help activate the parasympathetic nervous system, the "rest and digest" system. This can help you wind down and perhaps help you fall asleep. See if it works for you.

By taking some distance to our difficult emotions it becomes possible to hold them and comfort them rather than being stuck inside of them.

Admitting to yourself that you wish to be happy is a great gateway into the softness of you heart. It can feel innocent and vulnerable. Sometimes it can be surrounded with a question about worthiness. "Do I really deserve to be happy?" For most people, its easier to be compassionate with others than with ourselves. Is it like that for you? If it is, just know that the voice of compassion...

Following the breath is the foundational mindfulness practice. It's often the first thing we learn and it is still a useful cornerstone even after many years of practice. One of the great things about the breath is that is's always with us. Wherever you are, whatever the situation, you can always take a mini-break by following a single breath. And this you can do many time throughout your...

The more we fight with our experience the more we get stuck in it. A better way is to understand it. If there is inner resistance of any kind against your experience, see if it's possible to be curious about it. "What is this resistance about?"

When the body is relaxed the mind becomes relaxed. In this session we use a relaxing body scan as a way to fall asleep.

We can help the body to relax and calm down by actively slowing down our breath and focus on the out breath. We imagine that we are breathing in love and care and that the out breath brings relaxation.

Nowhere to go Nothing to do No one to be This is what we explore in this session.

“Look, here is a tree in the garden and every summer is produces apples, and we call it an apple tree because the tree "apples." That's what it does. Alright, now here is a solar system inside a galaxy, and one of the peculiarities of this solar system is that at least on the planet earth, the thing peoples! In just the same way that an apple tree apples!” - Alan Watts

All of your experiences show up in an open space. This is the open space of awareness. In this session we are resting as that space.

By taking control of your attention you take control of your life. Running on autopilot means following every reaction you have. But once you become aware about your reactions you can start choosing your response. You become respons-able.

Labelling our distractions can be a powerful practice. It strengthens our ability to know our own experience without being completely caught up in it. Or in other words, it grows our inner capacity for clarity and spaciousness.

We can use our hands to give love and appreciation to our body. This can be a helpful way to nourish self compassion and feeling more at home in yourself.

In this session we explore how attention can be both relaxed and focused at the same time. We play with the receptivity of attention. How we can hold our experience with a subtle and fluid embrace, able to sense both the large movements and the tiny vibrations.

Our social conditioning tells us to sit still and don't move to much. But the body is an alive organism and it is never really still. The heart beats, the breath moves, muscles have tiny micro movements. There are a lot of things happening. If we allow the body to move as it wants to and support those movements its easier for the body to relax and we come in more contact with our inherent aliv...

The practise of watching the breath is a great exercise both for beginners and more experienced meditators. The breath is always available for you and by stopping and feeling your breath for just a few moments at the time during your day you can create a big difference in your life.

When consciously turn our attention towards our thoughts with curiosity, we are no longer trapped by them. They can be there and we can just watch them, like watching a movie. The mantra, "I wonder what my next though is gonna be" , is an effective way to step out of identification with thought and just watching them as they are.

We are practicing taking the perspective of the observer. Noticing everything that shows up and seeing that we are not that which we observe. You are not your thoughts, you observe them. You are not your emotions, you observe them. You are not your body, you observe it. You are that which observes.

We don't silence the mind by forcing it or trying to stop our thoughts. The silence is already there underneath and all we do is letting go of the things we stack on top. Letting go of trying to achieve anything special, letting go of silencing the mind, letting go of any expectations around meditation. Even letting go of trying to let go. This is the way to peace.

Our mind is like a snow globe. The more we shake it, the more the snow swirl around. But if we put it down and let it just be as it is, the snow falls to the ground. It's the same way with our thoughts. When we try to silence the mind we are shaking our mental snow globe which will just make the thoughts swirl even more. Instead, simply let the thoughts come and go and just watch them. It'...