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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
10 Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation
What is Meditation?
How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
10 Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation
What is Meditation?
Benefits of Mindfulness: Mindful Living Can Change Your Life
Mindfulness 101: A Beginner's Guide
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Hi, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session we're going
to talk about acceptance.
And as I say that word, notice
what your relationship to it is.
Acceptance seems to be, uh, an
emotionally charged word for many of us.
And I think this is because we
often associate it with giving up or
passively resigning to life as it is.
This is just my plot in life.
Just need to accept it.
And even as I say that, I feel
completely disempowered and uninspired.
And so if that's our conceptualization
of acceptance, then yeah, it's
a, it makes sense why we wouldn't
like it, or we wouldn't associate
something positive to it.
But within the mindfulness space,
acceptance is more of a form of wisdom and
could be perceived as a power because it's
only when we accept our reality as it is
when we meet the truth of what is here,
that we can positively impact our future.
Otherwise, we have to run from
ourselves or we're only partially
embodied, or we need to suppress or
hide what we're feeling because we
haven't come to terms with the reality
of our life as it is right now.
And that can be a painful process, which
is why we often don't want to do it.
And so I'd like to just share three simple
steps that you can use to start moving
toward more acceptance in your life.
If you'd like to close your
eyes, you may, and I'll guide
you through a short practice.
But the first is just to think about
something that you're struggling
with accepting in your life.
It could be something
big or something small.
And then the Step Two is to notice how
you feel when you think about this thing,
specifically in your body, what is the
body doing in relationship to the thought?
Is it clenching?
Bracing?
Is it agitated?
And what we'll do is
invite the body to soften.
As the body relaxes, it communicates
to the mind that we're safe.
And it just helps loosen our grip around
trying to control so much of our life,
specifically this particular experience.
And then in the third step, we're just
reminding ourselves that we can't change
this moment, but we can meet it with
grace, which is a form of acceptance.
And can you settle into the experience in
such a way that there's a sense of being
held by something bigger than yourself?
This bigger thing could be connected
to your faith or the universe, but it
could also just be the recognition of
a long lineage of people who have come
before you for thousands, hundreds
and thousands of years, who have
gotten through difficult things that
they thought they couldn't accept.
So maybe just take a
moment to breathe that in.
And feel that you're held by
something bigger than you.
And so this is a practice that
you can utilize at the day.
If you'd like to open your eyes now, if
they've been closed, you're welcome to.
Um, and I wish you well on this,
this journey of acceptance,
we're here for you through it.
So thank you for your practice.
And let's now settle
in for our meditation.
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