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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, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today I'm going to talk about moving from
transactional ways of relating to more
mindful and heartful ways of relating.
So it's often the case that as
we go through our lives, a lot of
our interactions with other people
have this kind of unintentional
quality to them, where we're just
going through the motions, a bit
of a transactional quality to them.
So whether it's a person at the checkout
at the store, a delivery guy, or
maybe a person in a meeting at work,
or even a family member, a lot of the
time we just kind of bump into people
throughout the day and we have these
small exchanges of time with them.
But in that process, how often do we
pause for a few moments just to be
truly present with that person, to look
them in the eye, to meet them in the
moment, to acknowledge a sense of the
value, the goodness of the exchange?
And what I mean by valuing the goodness
of the exchange is, you know, the checkout
person is actually providing a really
valuable service to you in that moment.
And hopefully they're
being, you know, friendly.
The delivery guy has brought you
something you needed, et cetera.
Or maybe you're talking to a family
member and organizing something.
So here's a little practice for you today,
if this resonates with you to try it.
In every little interaction with
someone else, whether it's an email,
a conversation at the checkout,
or even in traffic, just try
not to be totally transactional.
That is, see if you can let go of being
in a mindset of just barely seeing or
being with this other person and just kind
of getting your stuff done through them.
See if instead you can use all of
those little moments of interaction
as opportunities to be really present.
Just aiming to be fully there with this
person, to listen to them, to see them, to
let them feel your total presence there.
And of course, you know, having an
attitude of being warm and kind to them.
This doesn't have to be a
huge change in your behavior.
It's really more of just a
shift in attitude and the
order of importance of things.
So let the most important thing in those
moments become just being fully present.
So that's the invitation for today.
Practice letting go of being
transactional and opening to
being more heartful, more mindful.
I think you'll find that when you
do this practice, there'll be more
little moments of true connection,
fulfillment and meaning getting
sprinkled all throughout your day.
So wishing you well with this practice.
And as always thank you for
your practice and for your
presence here in this community.
And now let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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