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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.
Over the last number of days,
we've explored a lot of different
strategies related to cultivating
happiness and wellbeing in your life.
Today, I want to share a strategy
you can use around visualization.
Now, when it comes to mindfulness and
meditation, well, at least mindfulness,
specifically, visualization is
not as much of a component of it.
However, we do bring mindfulness to
the stories going on in our minds, the
visual images going on in our minds.
And we're learning to work with
that in a more skillful way, which
is often letting it be there as it
is, or redirecting our attention.
Today, I want to talk about what happens
when we notice maybe a visual in the mind
that is more negative or not optimistic
and how we can start to change that.
Now, I think, a lot of times when
we, well, the first example that
comes to mind, is like stage fright.
When we think about having to give a
talk or go into a new group of people
and have a conversation, and we feel
some nervousness around that, one of
the things that's happening, is the
mind is already imagining all the
way is, this isn't going to go well.
We're thinking about how people might
perceive us, we see them rolling
their eyes, we see them not liking us.
And these visuals in the mind condition
a certain emotional reactivity,
which could be stress, sadness, fear.
However, one of the quickest ways
you can work with that, is just
change those visuals, and instead
of imagining what goes wrong,
you can imagine what goes right.
You imagine going there and, uh, perhaps
having a great conversation with someone.
You imagine going to a party and someone
smiling at you in that conversation.
That sort of visualization is
going to be very different than
imagining someone frowning or
not liking you or turning away.
My encouragement to you, is to look at
what are some of those visualizations
in your life when you feel yourself
down, or not at your best, or not
experiencing the wellbeing that you
want, how are you imagining your life?
What are you thinking about?
What are you seeing?
And it could be what you're seeing in
the present moment as it relates to
how you perceive yourself, but it could
also be seeing yourself in the future
and how you see your life unfolding.
And as it relates to mindfulness,
yeah, we're first cultivating
an awareness of those things so
that we're not consumed by them.
But you could take it a step further and
practice shifting some of those images.
Being playful with it, imagining what
would it like, the most beautiful
image look like where your life
feels inspiring or something's going
really well and is really positive.
This is just another tool that
you could put in your toolkit.
It's not something you have
to do in every single moment.
In fact, that would probably be
really tiresome to constantly have
to manage the visuals in our minds.
But in those moments where we are
feeling down, it can be a powerful
resource to start thinking more
positively and start enjoying
thinking about our life in the future.
So we'll do some more of this in
the meditation so you could get some
practice, but as you go throughout
your day, just start to notice
this and have some fun playing with
those images and transforming them.
I'll talk to you in a moment.
Thank you for your
practice, and take care.
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