Summary of Martin Aylward's Awake Where You Are

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Martin Aylward's Awake Where You Are in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Life is happening right in front of us, and within us—but still, we manage to miss so much of it.

Awake Where You Are provides the antidote, inviting us to go deep into our own bodies, to inhabit our sensory experience carefully; to learn the art of living from the inside out, and in the process to find ease, clarity, and an authentic, unshakeable freedom.

The practices in the book literally bring us back into our skin, where we can reconnect with a more rich, meaningful, and peaceful life. Aylward writes with sophisticated subtlety, as well as the heart-opening simplicity and clarity born of deep experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638159452

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Insights on Martin Aylward's Awake Where You Are

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When we recognize that life cannot possibly meet our expectations, we relax and accept our imperfections. We begin to forgive our human frailties and failings and treat ourselves with more compassion.

#2

To experience life fully, you don’t have to leave yourself behind. You can experience life while still being present in it.

#3

In sports and music, we simultaneously experience relaxation and focus. But in meditation, we experience these elements separately, and we experience them for the purpose of wisdom.

#4

When we are relaxed, we can better understand the meaning of the words of the Buddha.

#5

To be truly at home in your body, you have to embody your experience. Embodied awareness is the essence of meditation.

#6

The first step towards meditation is to become aware of your surroundings. The second step is to drop your attention down into your lower body.

#7

The Buddhist concept of mindfulness entails being fully present in the present moment and not trying to control or manipulate it. It entails being intimate with your experience and not abstracting yourself from it.

#8

The four areas of practice build on each other, from the most basic level of experiencing your body to meeting experience on all levels.

#9

Inhabiting experience fully, you are able to sense when tensions or reactivity arise and can deal with them calmly and effectively.

#10

The author met a holy man named Babaji who showed