Our inability to stay with unpleasant feelings causes us to dissociate and split off. Attention to breathing provides the anchor to stabilize volatile emotions and creates an agreeable abiding that paves the way towards unification (samadhi).
The practice of recollections brings a sense of immediacy, heightening attentiveness and focusing the mind. With each recollection ask, "How is the mind being affected?" The embodied response to this is a means for breaking old habits and releasing kamma.
Accessing the gift within takes a particular kind of attention that is light and sustained, like an open hand. This is the attention that ripens into mindfulness and deepens into samadhi; from this wisdom can arise.
