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Episode 20 of the Meditation, Doing, and Learning way (MDLWAY) audio feed sums up how practicing Bare Attention, non-reactive awareness, and mindfulness of the body could be useful for managing challenges that might otherwise contribute to overwhelm. 

After a short break, the MDLWAY audio feed will resume on April 25th.

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The eight preceding episodes have considered relatively common neurodivergent issues related to executive functioning, emotional regulation, and sensory processing. Challenges in any or all of these areas can lead to overwhelm. 

This episode defines overwhelm along with the related states of overload, meltdown, shutdown, and burnout, and considers how insight meditation and mindfulness techniques can help to identify and comprehend these states.

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The second of two episodes on mindfulness of sensory processing explores possibilities for internal interventions and external accommodations based on insight meditation and/or mindfulness practice.

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As a neurodiverse approach to meditation, the Meditation, Doing, and Learning way (MDLWAY) prioritizes the potential benefits of focused insight meditation and the practice of mindfulness in day-to-day life for sensory processing. 

This episode introduces sensory processing in the context of mindfulness and summarizes the instructions in the ancient Satipatthana sutta for practicing mindfulness of the six sense bases.

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This episode concludes a three-part series on emotional regulation. Episode 14 considered how insight meditation can be useful for identifying emotions or detecting mental and physiological variations from one’s baseline or 'resting' state. Episode 15 suggested ways to explore emotions through the tranquility meditation techniques of loving-friendliness, compassion, and sympathetic joy. Episode 16 sums up how meditation practice can gradually lead to clearer comprehension of emotions.

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Any movement or action can serve as an invitation to practice mindfulness. This episode builds on the introduction to walking meditation in episode 7 by extending mindfulness in (and of) motion to awareness of changes in posture and clear comprehension of action.

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Introducing the meditation, doing, or learning way (MDLWAY): a neurodiverse approach that brings current cognitive and neuroscience research to bear on meditation methods and techniques dating back 25 centuries. Listen to find out more about the MDLWAY.

This episode considers why new meditators should try still – and particularly seated – practice, and explores some factors that could be relevant for neurodivergent meditators. Find out more about five steps to practice any meditation method or technique while seated.

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Awareness is the basis of insight (or mindfulness) meditation. Meditators can use this skill alongside concentration to become and stay focused. 

Find out why awareness matters during meditation, which form of awareness can be most beneficial, and how to build this skill by practicing mindful breathing and counting breaths.

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Concentration is an essential skill that supports awareness for insight (or mindfulness) practice and deeper focus in tranquility meditation. Find out how meditation can engage and build this skill, even if a meditator experiences symptoms of attention disorders. This episode also introduces a technique: concentrated awareness of breathing.

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