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Rainfall - Student Audio

Sorry for the delay! It was finally my turn to catch Covid-19 this month. I am back on recording and hope to have more for you soon. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the start of fall.

Rainfall
8:31 min (plain audio) - 11:03 min (with Rain) - Student
This audio is a soothing exploration of the experience of being indoors listening to a rainstorm. Allow the sounds of the storm to draw you into a state of deep relaxation and focus. This file comes ...

Assignment - Pleasant Scene

Pick a pleasant scene. It could be a beach, a forest, a lounge room, some place that feels safe and enjoyable to you. It can be a specific place you are familiar with, or one you are making up.

Explore and expand the scene in your imagination. Focus, and be present there, with as much clarity as you can.

It’s alright if you can’t visualize the scene, or if your visualization is unclear. Use whatever senses, impressions, emotions, concepts are available to you. Conjure the expe...

Assignment - Coloring

Get a coloring book, or print a page from the internet. Use whatever you have, markers, crayons, pencils. Spend some time thinking about whatever you would like to think about. Just enjoy coloring. See what that is like. Is it relaxing? Boring? Meditative? Frustrating? Playful?

Student Materials Folder - September 2022

Downloads of all Student and free files can be accessed on the Student Google Drive.

If you are at the Extra Credit level, you may email the name of the extra credit file you desire to AureliaAlder@Gmail.com.

Thank you for your wonderful support!

- A...

Free MP3 Folder - September 2022

Downloads of all free files can be accessed on the Free MP3 Google Drive for patrons at the $1 level and above.

Thank you for your wonderful support!

- Aurelia

Assignment - Moving Attention

Focus all of your attention, into your left hand. Just being present in your left hand
Feeling the weight, the warmth, the contours, the fullness, whatever is there to be felt
Being entirely in your left hand
Now move
Focus entirely on the back of your neck
Noticing the sensations
Any slight tension, pressure, whatever sensations you can experience there
Being entirely there, entirely focused, entirely present, with the back of your neck
Now move
Focus entirely on y...

Assignment - Get in Touch

Think of an old friend or acquaintance, someone you haven’t been in contact with for a while. Reach out to them. Let them know you remember, appreciate, and are thinking of them.

Finger Tip Consciousness

Free - 18:32 minutes

We so often focus all of our attention, all of our being, on very limited, rigid aspects of our body. We feel like we have a “self” and like that self has a location. We have awareness, and we have an awareness of being aware, and often, we identify that awareness with a location. In fact, awareness has no location. Awareness can seem to exist anywhere, or everywhere. In this audio, experiment with freeing your mind of its rigid habits and experience a ...

Assignment - Smile to Yourself

Visualize yourself
If it’s available, you can look at yourself in a mirror
Allowing a warm glow of happiness to fill you
Whatever you feel, it’s alright
Simply doing your best
To connect with a gentle, warm feeling
And sending it toward yourself
You can envision me smiling – I am smiling right now. You can envision a friend or loved one smiling. You can envision a strange, smiling.
And feeling an opening in your heart, feeling your own face, relaxing into a smile...

Self Discipline

Student - 23:05 minutes

Sometimes, we can struggle to stick to tasks. It can be so easy to chase immediate satisfaction, rather than being grounded, committed, to our greater aims and aspirations. Retreating from moments of challenge, from boredom.

Finishing the things we start, persevering through challenges, and seeing a task or project or goal through to the end is all a matter of self discipline.

Sadly, so many popular ideas about what self discipline is can be ...

Assignment - Outside

Go outside and sit or walk for ten minutes, as it is safe for you to do so. If it isn’t safe, you may enjoy doing something next to a window. You can do anything at all while you are there. Maybe you would like to listen to music or a podcast. Maybe you would like to watch the shapes the clouds make. Maybe you would like to do some gardening. Do whatever you would enjoy, outside.

This Will Pass

Free - 12:40 min

One of the most basic aspects of the world, the most simple, fundamental truths about our experience, is that everything changes. Up and down, pleasure and pain, this is the inevitable flow of life. Nothing stays the same. Whatever you are going through, it will not last. All you need to do is be present with it, for just one breath at a time, remembering, this experience is temporary. You are okay.

Available here and in the Free MP3 folder. Binaura...