About this episode

Susan Piver discusses the benefits of eyes-open meditation and its connection to mindfulness in everyday life.

Eyes-open meditation can sound like the worst idea if you’re used to practice as a private escape. Then Susan Piver walks us through why keeping the eyes open may be the most direct path to mindfulness in real life, because you don’t have to “come back” when the sit is over. We talk about the simple mechanics of resting the gaze, why distraction and tired eyes are normal at first, and how the nervous system settles when we stop trying to force focus. From there, the conversation turns ...

People in this episode

Host: Sean Fargo

Guest: Susan Piver

Topics covered

• eyes-open meditation
• mindfulness
• nervous system
• distraction
• focus

Keywords

• eyes-open meditation
• mindfulness
• distraction
• nervous system
• focus
• meditation techniques

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