Awake where you are : the art of embodied awareness

Meditation is an intimate engagement with our lives, not something to do-it is adeep familiarization with experience, irreducible to a mere technique. All the talk of mind-training and mindfulness can make meditation sound a bit, well, mind-y- which is to say-a bit mental! All the language and descriptions of "working with the mind" can exacerbate our already chronic tendency to mentalize or abstract our experience, whereas we really need to gath...