Christian Howard
Guided Practice: Grounding in Our Sensory Experience
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What You'll Learn
Discover how grounding in our direct sensory experience can help liberate us from our limiting beliefs and connect us to a larger reality
Explore embodied practice as a vehicle to both befriend the unique limitations and suffering of our relative lives while simultaneously connecting us with an ultimate perspective
Consider how ancient wisdom traditions can help us navigate today's world
About Christian Howard
To learn more about his work you can visit his website.
About Eve Ekman, PhD
To learn more about her work you can visit the Atlas of Emotions, an online website for emotional awareness commissioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and co-created by Eve and Paul Ekman. You can also learn more about a contemplative science training for learning emotional balance that was founded by Alan Wallace and Paul Ekman and is currently lead by Eve Ekman and a global teacher network at Cultivating Emotion Balance.
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The most revelatory meditation this beginner has had….when you got to ‘explore the sense of your mind’….my ‘mind’ did something I have never noticed before. It lifted and expanded at an instantaneous rate…towards the horizon and then beyond! How wonderful Christian Howard – thank you for this gift in a time of such suffering.
I am so happy that I spent the evening with you, the speakers, and the moderators. I can;’t wait to tune in for more tomorrow!
Thank you,
Mike Bova
Thank you, Howard, for your wonderful guided sensory meditation. It was the first truly significant moment in this rather long, dry, intellectually pretentious event which seemed less designed for the audience that for the participants.
You did not talk to us, you touched us and brought us a method of meditation which will, I believe, move the audience much closer to having a deeper wisdom about their emotions.
Eileen Pierce
Thank you Christian and Eve for an enriching sharing of how change at the personal level (with practises informed by the wisdom traditions, and verified by science) can lead to transformation at the societal level. Your open hearted discussion was a joy to be part of. Thanks again.
So grateful for this gentle, insightful and open-hearted discussion! Always happy to witness Christian’s graceful way of approaching contemplative practice and sharing it with the world, and Eve is such a welcoming and warm host.
I do not agree that there are neither positive/negative or constructive/destractive emotions. They could’ve been seen/experienced as pleasant and unpleasant, but they are what yhey are. What caused our emotions is either recognazible or not at a moment of experiencing an emotion, but that is what is behind and deserves to be seen, experienced, questioned and explored for its accuracy. I found in North America, mostly, that dichotomy and being judgemental of emotions.
I agree, as this is taught by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD in his work on nonviolent communication (aka compassionate communication). He teaches that all unpleasant emotions/moods are indicators of unmet needs and thus valuable in communicating with others who are often able to assist us in meeting our needs. Actually, I am very surprised that Marshall’s working isn’t included or even highlighted in a summit like this because he offers so much in the world of emotional intelligence and has keys to world peace, love, harmony and bliss through the proper relationships with our emotional selves and our ability to communicate and make requests of others to help meet our needs. Marshall has a long history of successful negotiations with warring tribe, city gangs, countries based mainly on exploring the needs of each group and helping them to communicate successfully in the process of each getting their needs met and thus eliminating the source of the original conflict. The other key to compassionate communication is that, when done right, it always results in the parties becoming closer to one another. Please include an expert on Marshall Rosenberg’s work in your next summits from now on. We will all be wiser from it. Blessings to all the good your work is doing already for the people and the planet. ~Sincerely, Will Michael, PhD
Thank you so much for such a relaxing yet so powerful pratice.
I loved your tone and sensibility to diferent people.
I apreciate the so much all the interview, it resonate so much to me.
Hi! This is Mona from India. I had challenging 2 weeks and it’s been hard to feel present and at peace. I experienced this meditation tonight and it was surreal. I feel so much lighter, calmer and it feels like some weight has been lifted off my chest. Beautiful. Thank you 🙂
Seeing as for the first time and ordinary becomes extraordinary. Surrealist art challenges assumptions and demonstrates that we may not know what we think we know.
Thank you Christian for that wonderful teaching and guided meditation on our emotions, sensation and stories around our sensations🙏🏻
You have such a soothing voice! Thank you for the wonderful guided meditation.
What a nice experience to walk through the different phases during the meditation. And the mind…whew! Right when you said it is OK if you find this hard because I was just about to say that to myself 🙂. Thank you very much!
This was amazing. Very insightful. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for the approach towards mindfulness from such different and diverse sides.
I guess that in our times it’s very needed now to offer access to mindfulness to very different communities in the world, so lots of people have the possibility to find possible integration of mindfulness into their daily life on a personal level as well. And of course, we need to fulfil our responsibility we have while offering mindfulness to different communities.
Christian, thank you so much for your approach towards mindfulness!
Just as bubble baths are temporal so are bubbles.
This is deeply Nurturing thank you ☀️
Thank you Howard for this wonderful session. The guided meditation on sensory grounding was very relaxing as well as a great exercise to cultivate mindfulness. The concept of self generated bubbles and how we can expand and enhance them and maybe at one point of time be able to dissolve them, is so much aligned to feelings of universal brotherhood.
Going by my experience, there were two simultaneous process at work, I found relaxation while being mindful. Can you please elaborate a little more on how being mindful leads to a relaxed mind ?
Gratitude
Estimado Christian y Eva, gracias por este regalo bondadoso, y la práctica que estuvo genial y el dialogo enriquecedor . Quiero detenerme en Eva que señalaba que lo que percibimos por medio de nuestros órganos corporales, los sentidos no son emociones, entonces me ha surgido una interrogante de lo que yo había experimentado en mi vida y es que muchas veces los paisajes, los olores, los sonidos de la naturaleza la música me conecta automáticamente con un estado emocional, a veces de alegría o de tristeza a partir de la sensación que me produjo ese momento experiencial. Entonces si lo que sale de mi es un significado solo de sensaciones no de emociones???. Agradeceré me aporten al respecto, Jacqueline desde Chile.
Gracias!!!Gracias!!!! GRAcias!!!!