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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 explore some of the nuances
of how we define mindfulness.
And to do this, I'm going to
offer you several different
definitions of mindfulness that
are overlapping, but also distinct.
So first by Dr.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, this is one of the
most common, who says mindfulness
is the awareness that arises from
paying attention on purpose in the
present moment, non-judgmentally,
the awareness that arises from
paying attention on purpose in the
present moment, non-judgmentally.
Sylvia Boorstein, another teacher
says, mindfulness is the aware, balanced
acceptance of the present experience.
It isn't more complicated than that.
It is opening to or receiving
the present moment, pleasant or
unpleasant, just as it is without
either clinging to it or rejecting it.
So notice how that one lands for you.
And then this one by the great
Zen teacher, Thich Nhat Hahn.
He says, mindfulness shows us what
is happening in our bodies, our
emotions, our minds, and in the world.
Through mindfulness, we avoid
harming ourselves and others.
So notice that one, which also
has an outward orientation.
So each explanation should give
you a textural feel for what
mindfulness aims to cultivate.
It is an experience that we're
trying to figure out the words for.
How do we define it?
The definition I've proposed for
mindfulness is the practice of being
with our experience rather than
in our experience in a way that is
spacious, curious and heartfelt.
So that's another one you can add.
And the idea here is not to give
you the definitive answer, but
for you to hear a lot of different
perspectives on mindfulness.
Since you are practicing with us on
Mindfulness.com and you're developing
your mindfulness practice, I think
it's important to have a number of
different perspectives to see where they
overlap and where there might be some
distinctions as you start to develop your
felt sense of mindfulness in your life.
So thanks for your practice
and for being on the journey.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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