Guided Meditation: Increasing Your Concentration

We focused on concentration and single-pointedness — the antidote to the scattered, fragmented attention that short-form content creates.

This is foundational work.

What we practiced:

Alternate nostril breathing to settle the nervous system
Body scanning to drop out of the head and into felt experience
Grounding awareness at the base of the body (root chakra) — your anchor for safety and stability
Resting the mind into the body, the body into the earth

Key concepts:

Single-pointedness — training attention to stay, not wander
Non-meditation (Tibetan Buddhist tradition) — the art of easing up after focused effort, which is often when flow states emerge
Thinking during meditation is normal — noticing thought and returning without judgment is the practice, not a failure
Bodhicitta — wishing well for others as a way to break the self-referential loop of meditating only for yourself

Take it off the cushion: Maintain awareness of your body's aliveness throughout the day. That's where this becomes real.

Coming up: In-person retreats in Austin — donation-based, open to all — covering concentration and non-dual meditation.

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