This is the first episode of a two-part series on meditation. The second part will be about how to find your own way into it. This week, we hear from Dr Richard Branson who has been meditating for 15 years. He says that when you're doing passina em and other forms of meditation they are actually interfering with the real feeling process. And so if i'm meditating and i'm like scanning my body, what i'm doing there is controlling my attention with an idea, usually. But but then i'm following this form. That's actually if you, as you start to understand the dee tromea and good circles, will already have this intuition
Circling Europe co-founder Sean Wilkinson and I explore what it's like to practice across paradigms, the limits and transformational potential of circling, and the interplay between mediation, circling, and trauma work. Sean shares from his experience about the problems with static orientations to practice, subtle grasping to personal growth, and the orientation of trust.
Sean Wilkinson is a Circling Europe co-founder with an enduring passion for self-awareness, human potential, wisdom traditions and an ongoing inquiry into life. His focus includes extensive academic research, spiritual and psychological practice, coaching, and therapeutic training.
[0:02:53] Introducing Sean
[0:06:00] What is at the edge of meditation, circling, and trauma work?
[0:10:00] Discovering the limits of circling
[0:16:55] Exhausting an Orientation to Practice
[0:33:50] Scale Invariance
[0:39:10] Eclecticism to Integration
[0:49:10] The Orientation of Trust
[1:05:10] The Feeling Process
[1:25:20] A short guided meditation
[1:41:20] Metamodernism and the Meta-Crisis (mesa crisis?)
[1:42:42] The Paradigm of Leadership
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