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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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Hi, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're
going to talk about deep rest.
So one of the things I've found
for people that I've worked with
is that many of us actually need
training in rest and relaxation.
We have certain ideas of
what that would look like.
And usually it comes in the form of
maybe taking a break, having a cup
of coffee, or going on vacation.
But I think what many people find, and
myself included, before getting into
this work is that we can go through those
experiences, but still feel an inner
torment or an inner chaos, agitation.
Think about any time that maybe you've
been on vacation, but your mind is still
at work or your mind still is not giving
yourself permission to really be there.
So, it's one thing to take a
break and it's another thing
to really inhabit deep rest.
The way I like to define deep rest
is letting go of our inner struggle.
Letting go of our inner struggle.
Because we can take time
away from our external world.
We can shift the elements of our external
world to be a little bit more peaceful,
but if we're still creating internal
agitation, if we're still fighting the
emotions that we're experiencing, the
thoughts that are moving through our mind,
the sensations we're feeling in our body
or any aspect of our sensory experience,
that's still a form of tension.
I mean, think about it.
Anything that you have that you put force
against is going to create more tension.
And this is what many of us tend to
do on an ongoing basis, even when we
have the opportunity to take a break.
So the way I like to think about this and
work with this, like how do we actually
let go of this inner struggle, is to
practice curiosity over contraction.
Contraction can happen at the
psychological level, the emotional
level, the physical level.
Psychological being this, this
shouldn't be here, so thoughts.
The emotional level, we get angry
about the experience being there.
The physical level, we actually tense
around an already tense experience.
So instead of contraction, just
practice offering curiosity.
Curiosity, doesn't have an agenda.
It's not trying to get you somewhere.
It's not trying to change the experience.
It's just meeting it with an open hand.
And when we can do that with
our internal experience, even
if there's already tension.
Right?
Think about how you've had tension
perhaps in your life, but then you
get mad that there's tension there.
Well, that's just another form of tension.
So we can meet tension with curiosity.
Oh, what is this like right now?
We can meet stress with curiosity.
What is this like right now?
And in that way, we're creating a
container to hold the experience that's
spacious and allows the experience to
shift, to change, to pass, to complete.
But eventually allows us to drop into
a state of deep rest where we've let
go of some of this inner struggle
that we're so often engaged in.
So something to think about, to
take into your meditation practice.
Thank you for your practice and let's
settle in for today's meditation.
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