If you, like so many of us, find it challenging to settle into simply being present in this moment just as it is, this brief recorded meditative introduction might help. It can also help those who feel there must be a stage of meditation beyond the simple awareness of sensation.

As with any meditation, begin by giving yourself a chance to settle in, letting go of any need to get anywhere or do anything. You could listen to this short recording several times at first to fully envision and understand what freedom is being offered:

This imagery invites us to the present moment. It then allows even that sense of the finite to dissolve into radiance. This is the spacious freedom of meditation.