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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.
How did it go yesterday?
Did you get to practice creating a little
more space for the experience of stress?
It doesn't always make the
stress completely go away.
But it does help us prevent
ourselves from compounding,
doubling, tripling, quadrupling.
In today's session, we're going to build
on that, but specifically work with our
thoughts and gaining a little bit of
freedom from the tyranny of our thoughts.
I'm sure you're already well
aware of this, but one of the
big things that create stress for
ourselves is the thinking mind.
The mind that gets caught up in
story or narratives of why me?
I have so much to do.
Not good enough.
What if this doesn't go well?
What if, if, what if?
And it can be tough when
we're caught in that loop.
And I think we're all familiar
with those thoughts and immediately
creating an emotional response and
a sense of tension in the body.
One of the first things that we can do
to work with those thoughts, is again
giving those thoughts specifically space.
But it'll be a little
different than yesterday.
And that we're going to be
taking the perspective of being
an observer to our thoughts.
So much of the time when it comes to
the thinking mind, we are just right
there in it, the thought comes up
and we're thinking those thoughts.
And we start ruminating about those
thoughts, fueling those thoughts,
and they just go on and on and on.
But there's a different
perspective we can take.
One where we're watching them
rather than being caught in them.
I like to think of it as being in
relationship to watching a river.
So if you imagine, a river
going down a mountain.
A lot of times, if that's how our life,
we're caught up in the river, smashing
into the wide water, banging into the
rocks, wherever the river goes, we go.
And that's kind of like what it's
like to be caught in our thoughts.
But there's a different way we can
be in relationship to the river.
We could be sitting on the bank.
And in that way, same you, same
river, different relationship,
different experience entirely.
So as you sit here, maybe just
start to notice what thoughts
are moving through your mind.
You can have the eyes open.
If you want to close your eyes,
you're welcome to as well.
And what's it like to start
to watch that inner narrative?
To watch the stream of thoughts
moving through your mind.
As if you were watching a river or
watching clouds pass through the sky.
As soon as we take that perspective
that we're observing our thoughts,
immediately presupposes that who we
are is different from our thoughts.
And I would argue who we are as
much bigger than our thoughts.
We have this dimension of
ourselves that can simply be aware.
And what we're doing in this practice is
connecting more to awareness itself rather
than being so consumed by the thoughts.
Now, this is an ongoing practice.
It's something you could
practice throughout the day.
But it's something we're going to
dive in more deeply in the meditation.
So be sure you stick around for
that meditation, cause that's
really where we get to put this
into practice in a deeper way.
But again, thank you for
continuing on this journey.
You're on day two, which means we're,
we're making some headway and you're
learning some new tips and strategies.
Each day is building on the other.
And we'll take what we learned
here and build on it tomorrow.
As always, thank you for your practice.
I'll talk to you soon and take care.
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