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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 probably
one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
challenge with meditation, and that
is actually disciplining ourselves
to get it done on a regular basis.
Because let's face it, on some
days we wake up and, you know, we
just feel like doing meditation.
We feel like sitting for meditation.
There's an ease about it.
And then there's other days
when it's a bit of a struggle
to get ourselves to do it.
You know, maybe we tell ourselves we're
too tired, we've got too much to do.
We don't feel like it because maybe
we're sad or stressed or anxious.
And we don't want to sit
with all of that stuff.
But all of the excuses that come up in the
mind really are just the mind telling us
stories about why not to do the practice.
And if we can get used to just hearing
those stories, but simply going
and doing some meditation anyway,
then I believe this will represent
one of the biggest turning points
you'll ever have in your practice.
So often in life, we succumb
to the stories in the mind.
We get hijacked by emotions
and they pull us off course.
Whether we need to do some exercise,
eat healthier, or spend more quality
time with our loved ones, the mind very
often talks us out of very nourishing
and life affirming choices and lures as
towards the path of least resistance.
But when we make the deliberate choice
to go and meditate, despite what the
mind is saying or what we're feeling, we
start building this capacity to live with
more intentionality and more purpose.
Just that one daily decision can begin
to change the course of your life.
So even the choice to just practice
no matter what can be a powerful
mindfulness practice in and of itself.
So the next time your mind is telling
you why you should skip your meditation
today, try taking a pause for a moment
and just pondering, remembering why
you do meditation, why it's important
to you, what benefits you experience
when you do practice, what qualities
you're trying to cultivate in your life
and why this really matters to you.
Every time you connect with your own
deepest intentions and purpose, you make
it easier to make the choice to sit and
practice and you build the mental muscle
to choose to live life on your terms.
So I'm going to guide you a little
more today on this theme of intentional
living in today's meditation.
So I invite you to settle in for that now.
And as always thank you for your
practice and your presence here with us.
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