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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 Day Five
of this meditation challenge
on Coming Home to Yourself.
I really hope you enjoyed
yesterday's session with Melli,
where you were exploring, moving
from longing to belonging.
And I hope that connected you to,
um, your inherent self-worth and gave
you an ability to access more of an
experience of belonging, if that's
something that you've been lacking.
So, uh, I'm really excited
about today, where we're going
to be exploring awakening joy.
Awakening, joy.
Now there's a quote that comes to
mind when, whenever I talk about
joy, it's by Alan Cohen and he
says, "Don't postpone joy until
you've learned all of your lessons."
Joy is the lesson.
So notice how that lands for
you at this point in your life.
You know, I, I, one of the things I've
found in teaching about joy And practices
that inherently cultivate joy, is that
we have a lot of obstacles to joy.
Not just external, yeah,
those can be there, but I'm
talking about mental obstacles.
A lot of reasons that we don't feel
like we deserve joy or we're not worthy
of it, or we can only have joy when
we fix that or fix that, or somebody's
going through something difficult so
how could I possibly experience joy?
And I think the invitation I want to
make to you today to, to start, um,
is just the, the potential, opening to
the potential that it would be okay to
experience joy amid everything going
on in your life and in the world.
And that, perhaps it's one of the greatest
acts of rebellion and also the thing
that is most needed, because in order
to sustain ourselves for the work that
we're passionate about, the healing
work that we're trying to do, taking
care of other people who are suffering,
we need to be able to experience joy.
It is the thing that rejuvenates us, that
restores us, that that fills our energy
reserves to continue to show up for a
lot of suffering that is in the world.
And so if we're putting it off until
this gets fixed or that it gets
fixed, or there's no problems left,
we're going to go an entire lifetime,
because there's always something more.
There's always something that
can be better, that can be
changed, that can be more just.
And we have to do that work for
sure, but it's also okay to be
open to the pockets of joy that are
available to us when they're there.
So I hope you can take that in.
And also as a practice, as you're
going throughout the day, you can
start by just exploring for yourself,
what is your particular flavor of joy?
Because a lot of times we think it's
this big ecstatic experience, or we're
just going to be totally overwhelmed
with a smile and bursts of goodness.
And that might not feel
as accessible right now.
Maybe it is, and that's great.
But yours might be more of a flavor of,
uh, we could say self compassion or a
sense of ease, ease, or peace or balance,
or even neutrality can be experienced
as, uh, a feeling of joy when we really
allow ourselves to appreciate that.
Oh, there's nothing happening right now.
And this also represents the
absence of all of the things I'm
often pushing away or don't want.
And when we do find our flavor of joy,
which, you know, once this is over in
the meditation, you can assess throughout
your day of like, where do I find some
joy and how can I find more of that?
And since there are an infinite number of
permutations of what that can look like,
I'll, I'll leave that journey for you to
explore, to take some time to understand.
But once you identify a few things,
the real key thing is letting
yourself take it in because a
lot of times we just pass by it.
As Rick Hanson says, the brain
is like Velcro for the negative
Teflon for the positive.
But what he suggests is giving yourself
about 20 to 30 seconds to really feel
the experience of a positive emotion,
really feel the experience of happiness.
And what this will indicate to
the brain is that this is an
experience worth paying attention to.
This is an experience worth
taking in when it's here.
And that is what will rejuvenate us.
It will restore us.
So we'll, we'll do some of this
in our meditation today, giving
you the opportunity to feel into
some joy and cultivate some joy.
But as you go about your day today,
see if you can notice like first what
your flavor of joy is and where it
shows up for you, where you can help
facilitate more of it and really let
yourself take it in when it's there.
Thank you for your practice and let's
settle in for today's meditation.
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