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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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Hey, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
Today, we're going to talk about
getting through difficult moments.
You know, a lot of the conversations
we have in these Daily Mindfulness
sessions are about cultivating a quality
of peace, joy, optimizing the goodness
in your life, or mitigating discomfort,
developing the skills to experience
life a little more fully and gracefully.
But there are other times in life,
other experiences we might grow through
when we're just in survival mode.
Moments of intense pain,
trauma, and grieving.
These are often experiences where we're
just trying to keep our head above
water and we're just trying to survive.
There's not going to be much peace per se.
And we might lose some of our access
to our mindfulness skills or even our
ability to ground ourselves cause the
pain and the emotions are so overwhelming.
And this is okay.
It's a natural part of
the human experience.
And it's helpful to remember that you
come from a long lineage of humans who
for thousands of years have endured great
suffering and have made it through it.
It's very much within your DNA and your
wiring to experience these things and be
able to move through to the other side.
I think that's a helpful reminder.
And I also think it's helpful to
remember that you don't need to
be super present, more peaceful or
grounded or mindful in these moments.
It's okay to cry, to feel, to
be confused, to be angry, to
wail, to just want to run away.
All of this is very much a part of
processing difficult experiences.
So while we may not be able to find peace
in these moments, we may be able to do
some things to minimize the suffering.
Or at least create a container that
can hold it in such a way that we're
not adding another layer of suffering.
I do find that the breath is a great
way to do this since soft, relaxed
breathing is directly related to
a more settled nervous system.
So if you find yourself in these
moments now or in the future,
perhaps place your hand on your
belly and one hand on your heart.
Kind of like this.
And we could do this together right now.
Feeling the beating of your heart
and the movement of the breath.
Letting it be your
reminder that you're alive.
And there's still more right
with you than wrong with you.
Allowing this hold, hand on the
heart, the hand on the belly to be a
gentle crade, cradling, a nurturing
that you're offering to yourself.
You can let the abdomen soften.
Feeling as though you're breathing
deeply down into the belly.
The shoulders relaxed.
The face at ease.
And on each exhale, letting
some of that extra tension and
gripping just soften and settle.
So this won't make the pain go
away, but like a warm, caring
embrace, it might help soothe you.
And sometimes when we're in these deeper
places of despair, this kind of self
kindness and compassion is one of the
greatest gifts we can give to ourselves.
So if you're going through
something difficult in this
moment, I hope this helps.
If you're going through something
difficult in the future.
I hope you can refer back to this.
And if you know someone who's going
through something difficult right now,
maybe you can share this with them.
I'll talk to you more about
this in the meditation, and
thank you for your practice.
Talk soon and take care.
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