This is a vipassana guided meditation practice. Vipassana meditation, or insight meditation, is the practice of noting what is arising in your experience. Starting with some awareness of the breath in the body, we will open up to to the other sense-doors of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and thinking. As something arises, we will note what is present and allow it to be.

In this vipassana guided meditation, the purpose of the noting is to bring awareness to what we are experiencing without getting wrapped up. This helps us look at the present-time experience with mindfulness and not getting hooked in.

There are many different ways to cultivate mindfulness and insight, and this is just one. You can find another form of insight meditation in our guided meditation at    • Mindful Noting Practice  .

With any vipassana or insight meditation practice, it's important to cultivate some concentration or samadhi. We start this practice with a few minutes of focusing on the breath. As you learn to collect the attention and concentrate on the object of your awareness, distractions cease to divert your awareness away and you're able to look more deeply at whatever experience arises. This is important. Without concentration, the mind bounces around quite a bit and we can be unable to see what is arising in our experience. For more information about collecting the mind and building concentration, you can read our page and find guided meditations at https://oneminddharma.com/samatha-med....

More about vipassana meditation: https://tricycle.org/magazine/vipassa...
Benefits of meditation practice: https://oneminddharma.com/benefits-of...
Building a daily meditation practice: https://oneminddharma.com/7-tips-help...
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