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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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Hey, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going to
talk about those moments where we
just feel like we're in survival mode.
In the mindfulness journey there can
be a lot of joy and ease and peace.
And maybe you've experienced
this already on your path.
There's something about attuning
to the present moment, learning
about yourself, growing in new ways
that can feel inherently rewarding.
And we start tuning into all the
different pleasures and joys in
life that we were just on auto,
automatic pilot to beforehand.
However, with the journey of attuning
more deeply to our life, stepping out of
automatic pilot and really associating
into our experience, sometimes we can
feel the difficult moments that much more.
And sometimes when we're really going
through something difficult, it might
feel like we're, I can't be present.
I can't be mindful.
Like I'm just in survival mode.
I don't want to try to do anything.
I don't have any more
resources I'm depleted.
And I just want to speak to that
because in those moments, sometimes
we can add more pressure to ourselves
to try to be really present, to try
to hold ourselves together, or I need
to be mindful or I need to become.
And most of that's just nonsense.
It's extra agitation.
And we recognize that, that these are
moments that are going to be difficult.
We're not going to necessarily
be at our best in the sense that
we're going to feel a lot of joy.
We just trying to get through.
So, what I find helpful in these moments
is to cut myself some slack, recognize
that it's going to be difficult.
And I just try and show myself
some compassion along the journey,
to be my own best companion
toward what I'm experiencing.
And you can do this as well.
I encourage you to.
And you can place one hand on your heart
and one hand on your belly, just feel your
body breathing, feel your heart beating.
And by tuning into that, the goodness
that your heart is beating, your
body is breathing, you let that be
a reminder that there's still more
right with you than wrong with you.
Recognizing that this too shall pass.
You will get through this.
You've gotten through difficult things
before, and you come from a long
lineage of humans, of ancestors who
have gotten through difficult things.
It's built into your DNA.
So you don't have to try to make
it anything more than it is or
feel any better than you do.
Give yourself space to go through
what you're experiencing, trust the
process, show yourself compassion along
the way and know that this will pass.
And then we get through.
And, and the sun is on the other side.
The light is on the other side
and you'll feel different, but
you need to trust that journey.
And so give yourself the
permission to just be in survival
mode and trust the process.
Thank you for your practice.
And if you are going through something
difficult right now, we're sending you
a lot of love here at Mindfulness.com.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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