Meditation #11 - Deepening your responsive mode (Rick Hanson)

This a meditation to get in touch with the simple good things that happen all the time in our lives. We are, for instance, invited to remind some positive episodes, people with whom we feel good with and to accept the present moment as a perfect one.

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Verdict: It is a very good and simple meditation to activate positive emotions. These can be cultivated and trained to use as a valid resource in our daily life.


Meditation #10 - Being on your own side (Rick Hanson)

This is a compassion meditation. We are first asked to recall some situations so that we can sense how compassion feels in the body (note: everytime we felt a strong compassion during the meditation, the HRV changed immediately to a coherent cicle). Then we take this same emotion and project it throughout our whole life: since the beggining, when we were a child, until our last moments.

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Verdict: It is a simple meditation which can activate some positive emotions. These can be cultivated and trained to use as a valid resource in our daily life.


Meditation #9 - The True Nature of Awareness (Eckhart Tolle)

This is a very simple meditation, of just being in the present moment, accepting what emerges in the now, and observing the true nature of awareness. Because it is so simple and subtle, it turns out to be very difficult, mainly for people who aren’t familiarized with practices like mindfulness.

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Verdict: the results, in the overall, are medium, because although simple, this meditation require some experience from the meditator.

Meditation #8 - Discovering the Unchartered Territory (Gangaji)

This is a meditation focused on guiding questions, beginning with the classic "who am I", and evolving into others like "where do the words come from?", "where do they go next?", etc. Her calm and smooth voice, in conjunction with the questions, originated a great stillness and deepness inside me, like the data also show.

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Verdict: the objective data as well, as the subjective one, pointed out to a recommended meditation practice.


Meditation #7 - Guided Meditation (Brian L. Weiss)

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Man at work thinking about golf, golfing thinking about sex, having sex, thinking about work.

Do you understand now the importance of being present?