I'm listening to Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield's 40-day introduction to meditation on Insight Timer. Several helpful things they do almost every time make me think about teaching.
There is always a clear sense of continuity from day to day, like:
On the first of practice, you x, y, z. Today we'll explore this we move into practice.
In the last few days, we have been (working on negative emotions), we can also cultivate POSITIVE emotions.
In the past sessions, you've been widening your field of...
You're now prepared to learn one of the most important aspects of mindfulness practice: how to respond when you have strong emotions.
Very often there will be a connection to a "scientific" why, like:
recent studies have shown that...
Very often there will be a connection to a wisdom person -- Dali Lama, Thomas Merton, a poem
Brach takes part of this quote, ignoring the activism and focusing on the the idea that we were are all involved in the "rush and pressure." “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
At the end of the session there's always a connection to how this can affect your life today, like:
Enter your next activity with relaxed spacious presence.
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