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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, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today I'm going to talk about how we can
cultivate true and lasting self-worth.
So I think for many of us, when we think
about where our sense of self esteem
or our sense of self-worth comes from,
we often think about external factors.
You know, whether this is
conscious or notm this is often
where our attention is aimed.
And so maybe we believe for instance,
that if we behave in certain
ways that we believe are good or
society believes is good, then
we can feel good about ourselves.
If we do not behave in that way,
then we feel bad about ourselves.
We feel unworthy.
But is our worthiness
really in our behavior?
And sometimes we look for our worthiness
by comparing ourselves to other people.
You know, if we believe that we're
less than them in some way, whether
it's less good looking, less
wealthy, less successful, then we
might feel unworthy or inadequate.
But is our worthiness really in how
we compare to other human beings.
Or you're, perhaps we can feel
good about ourselves as long
as other people approve of us.
So when we get their approval, when
we get their love, or when we get a
certain number of likes on Facebook,
then we allow ourselves to feel
good enough, worthy, okay as we are.
But if they don't like us, we fall apart.
But is our worthiness really truly
in what other people think of us?
So the reality is, is that all of these
different forms of trying to find our
sense of self-worth outside of ourselves
are both artificial and really unstable.
They leave you at the mercy of all these
external and ever-changing conditions.
And too often, we use these criteria
as our measure of self-worth.
And then we always end up falling
short, you know, feeling inadequate.
So one of the gifts of mindfulness is
that it helps us to very, very clearly
see that these external factors are
not true measures of our worthiness.
Mindfulness teaches us to let go of
looking outside of ourselves for that
feeling of worthiness and to find it
and cultivate it inside of ourselves.
So through mindfulness we develop
the capacity actually to accept
and love ourselves just as we
are without any conditions.
We don't base our self worth on what
other people think of us, how much
we weigh, whatever we're wearing
or what kind of car we drive.
We actually learned to gradually
soften and let go of worrying so much
about all of that and just learn to
befriend ourselves, flaws and all.
So through meditation, the ability
to feel true and lasting self-worth
naturally grows within us, but we
can cultivate it in daily life too.
So today try paying attention to your
feelings of self-worth throughout
the day, how they might fluctuate.
And be aware of the times when you're
judging yourself, comparing yourself
or feeling that you're not enough.
And each time you catch that, aach time
you get caught up in self judgment or
approval seeking, see if you can practice
self-acceptance and self-love instead.
Because in the words of John Kabat-Zinn,
"If you stop trying to make yourself
more than you are out of a fear that
you're less than you are, then whoever
you really are, will be a lot lighter,
happier, and easier to live with too."
So as always thank you for your
practice and your presence here with
us and inviting you now to just begin
to settle in for today's meditation.
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