Think You Suck at Meditation? This Conversation Could Help. | Ofosu Jones-Quartey

How to (constructively) lower the bar on your meditation practice. Ofosu Jones-Quartey is a meditation teacher, hip-hop artist, and author based in the DC area. He’s a certified teacher with over 20 years of experience bringing mindfulness, self-compassion, and creativity to people of all ages. His stage name is “Born I,”, and his new book is called Lyrical Dharma: Hip-Hop as Mindfulness. In this episode we talk about: • The definition of open-awareness meditation • How it differs from classical concentration practices (such as focusing on your breath, or loving kindness phrases) • Why Ofosu chose open-awareness meditation (in direct response to his struggles with OCD) • How you can practice open-awareness meditation • The benefits of a technique called “mental noting” • The “practice self-assessment tapes” that we run in our mind • Self-compassion and “lowering the bar” in your meditation practice • The relationship between neurodiversity and meditation in general • How to depersonalize the experience of suffering • And we hear some of Ofosu’s music and the life experiences that inspired it

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