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As your hands come to rest in front of your heart, you can have the stillness of your hands strengthen your sense of stillness. Do this only if it seems to help. Do this movement a few times at your own pace. If you lose touch with the stillness, stop and reconnect with it, then continue. Finish the movement you are on while staying with the stillness. Silence The next meditation is silence. Look around in your field of awareness and find something that to you is silence. Dont try to get an exceptionaly strong experience of silence, or a perfect experience of silence. Just get a little. Just get a taste of silence. If you can't find anything that, to you, is silence, just imagine some silence and go with that. If you are distracted by any sounds, just understand that silence is at the base and is sometimes obscured or covered over by sounds. Just reconnect with the silence. Treat silence as the underlying base of your awareness. If you find yourself struggling to make the silence stronger, give that up for now. Just go for a little bit of silence. Gently work with this for a few minutes. Become familiar with the silence that lies at the base of awareness. Next, lets challenge your connection with the silence a little. We will say the syllable Ah while staying in touch with the silence. Ah is one of the simplest and gentlest sounds, so it is a good one to begin with. Take a breath and say Ahhhhhhhhhh while staying connected to the silence. Understand that silence is at the base and that sounds can sometimes obscure the base, hiding it from awareness. If you lose touch with the silence while chanting, stop and reconnect with it, then continue. Chant Ahhhhhhs for a couple of minutes. Non-Conceptual Mind The next meditation is non-conceptual mind. Look around in your field of awareness and find something that to you is non-conceptual mind. This is how the mind is when it is not conceiving of something or thinking about something. Just find something that to you is non-conceptual mind. If you can't find something that, to you, is non-conceptual mind, just imagine it and go with it. Dont try to hold off your thoughts, or try to get a strong experience of non-conceptual mind, or try to get a perfect experience of non-conceptual mind. Just get a little. Just get a taste of non-conceptual mind. If you are distracted by any thoughts or concepts, understand that non-conceptual mind is at the base and is sometimes obscured or covered over by thoughts. Just reconnect with non-conceptual mind. Treat this as the natural base of your awareness. If you find yourself struggling with thoughts, give that up for now. Just reconnect with the base. Gently work with this for a few minutes. Become familiar with not conceiving of anything, just being present. Ending Open your eyes slowly and see the room with fresh awareness. Notice if your state has changed and how it has changed. Dont be too hasty to re-engage with movement, sounds, and concepts. Take a minute or two to be nakedly aware, until the state loses its freshness.
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