Coaching practices for Meditation Practice Sequence
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- I’m brand new to this and when I try to meditate my mind just wanders off and I don’t even notice for minutes
- Whenever I try to sit in that open, spacious awareness I just drift off into daydreaming and lose twenty minutes
- I sit for a long stretch on a free day and then skip three days, and every time I come back it feels like starting over from zero
- I meditate in long bursts when the mood strikes and then go weeks without
- When I finally work through a hard feeling I rush straight back into doing and it all snaps shut again
Practices that may help
- Counting the breath (susokukan)
Count breaths from one to ten and start over, a traditional on-ramp to a steady mind.
Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond) - Sequencing focused attention and open monitoring
Use focused attention to settle the mind first, then release the object and shift to open monitoring — this is the standard contemplative sequence.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical - Structuring a consistent kasina daily practice
Two thirty-minute sessions per day — one morning, one late afternoon — with strict object and environment consistency.
Kasina Meditation: Concentration Through a Physical Object - RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
RAIN is a four-step mindfulness practice developed by Tara Brach that stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture. It is designed to meet difficult emotions — fear, shame, grief, anger — with mindful awareness rather than avoidance or overwhelm. The steps draw on mechanisms shared with acceptance-based therapies (ACT, MSC, MBCT); the RAIN sequence itself is practitioner-developed and not yet independently trialed as a protocol. - The 20-minutes-twice-a-day routine
Practice roughly 20 minutes in the morning and again in the late afternoon, every day.
Transcendental Meditation (TM) - After RAIN: resting in natural, open awareness
After the four steps, rest in the open awareness that remains — not returning immediately to doing.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Work as practice (samu)
Bring full, wholehearted attention to ordinary tasks, treating activity itself as meditation.
Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond) - Anapana — breath observation as the entry point
Settle the mind by observing the natural breath at the nostrils before doing anything else.
Vipassana Meditation, Made Practical - Everyday integration — using commute and errand walks as practice
Transform a portion of routine walking into meditation by choosing one formal practice element to maintain for the duration.
Walking Meditation, Made Practical - Metta at the close — sharing merit and goodwill
End each sitting by radiating goodwill outward, softening any self-critical edge the practice surfaces.
Vipassana Meditation, Made Practical
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- How To Practice Rain Meditation
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- Meditation Progression
The nine progressive stages of shamatha describe normal development — knowing them prevents discouragement.
Understand the nine stages as a map, not a race
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RAIN is a four-step mindfulness practice developed by Tara Brach that stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture. It is designed to meet difficult emotions — fear, shame, grief, anger — with mindful awareness rather than avoidance or overwhelm. The steps draw on mechanisms shared with acceptance-based therapies (ACT, MSC, MBCT); the RAIN sequence itself is practitioner-developed and not yet independently trialed as a protocol.
- The Last Time Meditation When Starting Out
Count breaths from one to ten and start over, a traditional on-ramp to a steady mind.
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