Regional Meditation

Regional Meditation (RM) is a simple, secular meditation method designed for real life — a practical way to understand consciousness by visiting the different regions of your experience one at a time. It’s not about escaping the world or forcing the mind to be quiet. It’s a guided return to the places inside you that are always present but often overlooked.

This approach works as both a daily meditation practice and a flexible meditation guide you can use anytime you need clarity, grounding, or a deeper mind‑body connection. Each step helps you become more familiar with your inner landscape — how thoughts arise, how awareness shifts, and how consciousness organizes itself moment to moment.

RM offers a clear path inward. It’s a way of understanding consciousness through direct experience rather than belief, ritual, or philosophy.

Below are the four steps of the practice — a simple structure you can return to anytime you want to come home to yourself.

1. Settle in and Prepare

Set the timer and sit however your body naturally wants to sit. Let your shoulders fall. Let your jaw soften. Let the front of your chest widen just a touch.

Observe your thoughts and the intrinsic qualia of counting at a moderate pace while performing a set of five 5‑by‑5 box breaths, pausing slightly after each inhale and exhale. If you become distracted, pick up where you left off.

Relax and breathe steadily for five sets.

Inhale: “1, 2, 3, 4, 5”

Exhale: “1, 2, 3, 4, 5”

Repeat four more times while observing the qualia of your thoughts counting.

2. Set the Context of me

Use CBM to set the context of what it means to be “me.” The coin, the battery, and the mirror are everyday objects that serve as examples and symbols to help.

Observe your thoughts as you read the following sentences. If you become distracted, pick up where you left off.

“The Coin is an example of one thing with two different sides. It symbolizes how, as one person, there are two different versions of me when I’m conscious.”

“The Battery is an example of how something different, like energy, can become available when the right conditions are met. It symbolizes how my consciousness becomes available when I’m conscious.”

“The Mirror is an example of how one thing can change in two different ways independent of one another. It symbolizes how my consciousness changes in different ways than the qualia that take place and change within it.”

3. Regional Touch Base

Check in with each of the unified regions of your consciousness.

Observe your thoughts as you read the following sentences silently to yourself. If you become distracted, pick up where you left off.

“This thought …. and all intrinsic qualia, take place and change in the intrinsic region of this consciousness — where I know myself as a brain to be.”

“This vision …. and all visual qualia, take place and change in the visual region of this consciousness — in front of where I know my body to be.”

“These sounds …. and all sound qualia, take place and change in the sound region of this consciousness — all around where I know my ears to be.”

“This sensation …. and all sensation qualia, take place and change in the sensation region of this consciousness — within the outline of where I know my body to be.”

“This smell and taste, however faint …. and all smell and taste qualia, take place and change in the smell and taste regions of this consciousness — where I know my nose, mouth, and tongue to be.”

“All of the qualia of these regions take place and change together in this consciousness — where I know my body to be in the world.”

4. Sit and Observe

Do nothing but sit in observation of all your unified qualia while remaining independent of it until the timer goes off. If you become distracted, pick up where you left off by doing nothing but sitting in observation of all your qualia while remaining independent of it until the timer goes off.