Many in Program speak of having a "committee in their heads." We tend to identify with the endless chatter of our own minds as we think about myriad things at once: things that happened in the past, and things we fantasize about that, which will in all likelihood, never happen in the future. Why not replace the committee in your head with awareness meditation? In many ways, it's the same thing. If you are used to juggling a thousand thoughts at the same time in your head, you are a natural for awareness meditation.

Try this: Find a comfortable chair and sit up straight. Do not support your back with the chair, or if you feel the need, only support it slightly. Close your eyes. Take in several deep slow breaths. Breathe until you find a comfortable rhythm. Also, find that place on your nose where you can feel the breaths going in and out. For some of us it is that point right at the tip of your nose. For others, it's much deeper in the nose, almost at the point where your nose meets your skull. Find your place...and feel each breath.

After you begin to feel your breathe, listen.... Even if you are in a "quiet" room, you will begin hearing sounds. Identify those sounds. Then listen for another sound. Try to "hear" both sounds at the same time. Now listen for other sounds. Once you start hearing all these noises, both inside and outside of the room, start feeling the other sensations that your senses produce. Can you feel the air conditioning or heater blowing? Does your knee or shoulder ache a little bit? Feel all of those things, while still listening to all the sounds that you can hear.

That's one approach to awareness meditation. Anyone can do it!