Eric

I was talking with a student about their meditation practice. They were describing using attention versus awareness and they felt that in order to maintain the focus of attention there has to be a felt sense of contraction. That the fact of using attention causes a contraction in experience. I suggested that this doesn't have to be the case, that there can be a highly focused attention without the feeling of being contracted if awareness is leaned into and most of the conscious power goes...

My association with the Finders Course began in 2014. At the time, there wasn’t much information available online about Dr. Jeffery Martin. I was leading a meditation group on Meetup when someone from Jeffery’s organization contacted me about the course and asked if I would be interested. I had been teaching meditation since 2011 and had been in what Jeffery calls Location 2 since 2003. I felt that learning new techniques for my students and seeing if I could go further (it felt like there...

In 2018, I had the unique opportunity to participate in a well-being study for long-term meditators at Richard Davidson’s Center for...