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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?
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Mindfulness 101: A Beginner's Guide
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Hello, and welcome back
to your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going to
talk about how to find micro moments
of calm in seemingly unending chaos.
So I'd like to share a story to begin.
A number of years ago,
I got into hot yoga.
If you're unfamiliar with hot yoga, it's
essentially yoga in 105 degree heat.
It's intense.
And for me, starting out, this
was a very new experience.
I was sweating a lot.
I was exhausted.
My heart was beating and there weren't
many opportunities to take breaks.
For me, it just felt like
90 minutes of pure torture.
And so I'd be doing all the poses,
the warrior poses, downward dogs.
And I just remember getting to the end
of that and being utterly exhausted.
In fact, a weekend, I was like, you
know, there's no way I can keep this up.
And I tell you about two weeks into
the experience of hot yoga, as a
survival mechanism I realized I had
to find certain moments throughout
the 90 minutes for me to relax.
Otherwise, I wasn't going to
be able to continue to do this.
And I found that halfway through
the session, we were doing this
one pose called Cobra pose, which
for me was tough at the time.
You have to hold your whole body up.
It's strenuous on the
lower back and mid back.
And so I would do that pose, but then
the instructor would say, okay, relax.
And we'd get about 10
seconds of relaxation.
But during those 10 seconds, what
my mind typically would do is
already start thinking about the
next Cobra pose I'd have to do.
And I'm like, Oh man,
this is going to be awful.
I don't want to do this.
I hate yoga.
I hate the instructor.
And so here I had these small moments
where it actually could relax, but I
was creating more stress for myself.
Once I saw myself doing that.
I said, let me actually take
advantage of these 10 seconds.
And so I did.
I do the Cobra pose.
The instructor would say,
okay, relax for 10 seconds.
And I would drink those 10 seconds in.
I'd let my body completely melt into
the mat, I'd I take a deep breath, I
wouldn't think about the next pose,
and I would really relax into it.
Then I go into the next Cobra.
And I'd be frustrated with it, but
we get another ten second break.
And I learned to find these
micro moments throughout the
practice that really rejuvenated
me for the rest of the practice.
So I'm not sure what you're going
through in your life, but, I'm sure
you can resonate with going through
days that just feel very intense.
And even though you might not
have long stretches to relax, I
encourage you to find those micro
moments where you can let go.
Even if it's just 10 seconds or the short
period of time you get in the bathroom.
Those little opportunities can
help rejuvenate you for the
rest of your day and all of the
things that you're trying to do.
Thank you for your practice.
I'll talk to you in the
meditation and take care.
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