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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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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.
Today I'd like to talk
about staying open to joy.
And I'd like to share a quote
by Alan Cohen, where he says,
"Don't postpone joy until you
have learned all of your lessons.
Joy is your lesson."
So notice what it's like to
hear that, how that lands for
you at this point in your life.
With all pithy quotes, there's obviously
sometimes nuance that is lost and it's
true here as well, because the reality
is that sometimes with difficult
experiences that we're processing
and getting through, the feeling of
joy isn't necessarily the appropriate
response, nor should we expect it to.
Sometimes we need to feel.
Pain, fear, confusion, despair.
And that's part of the larger
process of being human.
The way I interpret this quote is
that we should be wary of getting
caught in the trap of thinking,
I need to figure all of this out,
learn these lessons, do all of this
healing before I can finally feel joy.
Or before I can appreciate
goodness in my life.
And instead, the invitation in here
is to recognize the small moments of
joy that are there along the way, but
also to stay open to the goodness of
your life that can come through moving
through the healing process, learning
these various lessons, the highs and lows
that are inevitably part of being human.
If we're postponing our joy and starting
our life until we figured everything
out and did all of our healing,
we'll never get to experience joy.
There's always something more.
And so maybe the most profound work
there is, is staying open to that
goodness, feeling it while it's there
and being able to see it sometimes when
we get really narrowly focused on what
isn't going well and what is wrong.
So my invitation to you today and for
the rest of the week is just to start to
notice more and more where you might be
getting caught in that trap of, I need
to figure this out, or I need to meditate
X amount of times before I'll finally be
able to experience relaxation and joy.
And instead, what might it be like
to just practice receiving it in this
moment and keep your awareness open
for those little moments where it's
there, but maybe aware glossing over it.
So I hope this helps and gives
you something to think about.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for our meditation.
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