Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee How To Create a Spacious & Peaceful Mind - Guided Meditation With Zen Master Henry Shukman #643
Mar 29, 2026
Henry Shukman, a Zen teacher and meditation author, leads a calming guided practice on settling the body and easing the nervous system. He explores spacious awareness, our connection to something larger, and a simple way to notice thoughts without getting pulled in. There’s also a gentle invitation to return to presence with more ease.
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Meditation Can Go Beyond Stress Relief
- Meditation can calm and recalibrate the nervous system, but Henry Shukman says its deeper value is revealing a boundless awareness beyond the separate self.
- He frames practice as both stress relief and a way to sense we are not separate from anything at the deepest level.
Henry Shukman Felt Meditation Reset His Stress
- Henry Shukman began meditating because he had grown up with a lot of stress and wanted relief.
- He says practice left him with a calmer, better adjusted nervous system and made a tremendous difference in his life.
Settle The Body Before You Meditate
- Get comfortable in a seated position, gently sway or rock, then let the body feel soft and floppy while staying upright.
- Henry Shukman uses this rag-doll release and a short spell of listening to settle attention before anything more subtle.