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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 integrating
more awareness into daily life.
So if you bump into a friend at the store
and you ask them how they're doing, the
answer would probably often be, busy.
And we really are these days, many of us.
Much of our daily life consists of
moving from task to task all day long.
So we're doing a lot of doing,
however, we usually don't bring
that much awareness to it.
Sometimes doing our
tasks does feel pleasant.
So we might be really enjoying a sense
of accomplishment, ease or fulfillment.
But a lot of the time our doing swings
between, I would say, three states.
Sometimes it feels like a drag,
we're just doing it because it needs
to be done, but with a kind of like
a subtle feeling of resentment.
Sometimes we feel stressed and
driven and kind of pushing,
hurrying through our tasks.
And other times we're barely there at all.
We're kind of just lost in a mental fog,
kind of numb to the world around us.
So if our tasks and making up the majority
of our lives, then if we can change the
way we do them, we can quite profoundly
change the quality of our day to day life.
So how can we shift our
relationship with doing?
So for me, the essence of the
answer to this is to do each
task with your whole self.
How do you do that?
See if you can reduce your focus down
to doing just one thing at a time
and bring your full awareness to it.
Seeing if you could bring the same
kind of moment to moment awareness
that you would have when you're doing
something like surfing or yoga or
listening to music or watching a sunrise.
And if you can bring that to your everyday
duties, like eating or brushing your
teeth, or being mindful of any sense of
resenting the task or rushing through it.
And if you notice that, try to take
a big breath, exhale slowly and
bring your focus back to the moment.
If you can do that over and over again,
with small tasks, staying present and
focused and calm, you bring more of that
mindful energy through your whole life.
Like I know one little trick that helps
me to stay more present in my doing is to
put calming music on in the background,
or sometimes I put a meditation timer
on when I'm doing something like the
dishes I find that really helpful.
And then after each task is completed,
it helps just to take a pause just
for three seconds or five seconds to
take in that feeling of completion
before moving onto the next thing.
So the invitation for practice
today is to really try to experience
this awareness as a way of living.
Infusing mindfulness into the small
things many times a day so that
you can feel more peace and more
fulfillment throughout your day.
As always, thank you for your practice.
I hope you enjoy this today.
And let's settle in now
for today's meditation.
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