Short Practices Archives – Integral Life

Overcome Frustration by Accepting What is Happening, Right Now

Integral Life — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:29:35 +0000

Are you angry, upset or frustrated by a situation in the world, or perhaps someone in your life? Are you having trouble accepting some circumstance in your life? Learn to address it constructively by practicing acceptance in the face of difficult feelings. This one minute practice can help you do so.

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The Embodied Success Shift: A Simple Meditation to Cut Through the Hustle and Cure Your Burnout

Ryan Oelke — Mon, 06 May 2019 20:05:17 +0000

This 7-minute meditation is very easy to follow, and empowers you to quickly experience the shift from living outside of yourself to resting in the fullness and foundation of your body. Feel the difference between living on the surface of yourself and what’s it’s like to return within your body, to the center of your life.

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Reclaiming Your Power While Struggling With Chronic Illness

Dr. Lynn Royster Fuentes — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 01:34:10 +0000

Lynn Fuentes offers a brief teaching about how to reclaim your power while struggling with the sense of disempowerment that often accompanies various kinds of chronic illness, whether you are dealing with your personal health issues or those of a loved one.

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Finding Your Inner Home

Miriam Mason Martineau — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:30:43 +0000

This practice will help you discern where you are coming from within yourself in each moment — your egoic self, or your deeper essential Self — and enable you to live and relate from a place of presence and centered-ness, so that you can respond rather than react to your child.

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A Taste of Centering Prayer

Father Thomas Keating — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:37:06 +0000

Centering Prayer is a simple Christian practice that helps us to locate and take refuge in our "inner room," consent to the presence of God-in-2nd-person, and lead us into deep prayer, devotion, and contemplation of the divine. Listen as Father Thomas offers a short guided practice of Centering Prayer.

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Your Native Perspective: Better Relationships

Integral Life — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:29:45 +0000

This practice will help you become more fluent with native perspectives — four fundamental ways of being, perceiving, and doing — in both yourself and in other people.

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Aesthetic Practice: Looking at the Overlooked

Michael Schwartz — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:19:58 +0000

Michael Schwartz offers a powerful aesthetic exercise to help you activate the various perspectives on art (including becoming aware where we are stuck in the fluidity of our perspective taking) and integrate those perspectives into a higher-order perception that will profoundly expand and deepen your aesthetic experience.

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Contemplation on Death and Impermanence

Terry Patten — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:21:03 +0000

Terry Patten offers a short guided meditation to help you reduce the existential fear, dread, and anxiety surrounding death by shifting your attention and identification to the indestructible presence at the very center of your being.

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Basic Meditation Instructions

Terry Patten — Tue, 30 May 2017 19:36:01 +0000

Terry Patten offers some very basic instructions to help you kickstart your meditation practice. He also offers an extended segment on "Integral Inquiry", a simple but powerful technique that can deepen your ongoing practice.

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Get a Feel for Integral

Integral Life — Mon, 15 May 2017 23:35:46 +0000

Consciously following the deepest contours of your very own nature is the foundation of any Integral Life Practice. Here you will learn how to feel these basic dimensions of your being, simply by noticing what is already present.

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