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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, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going to talk
about the healing power of curiosity.
Now you've probably heard me talk about my
affection for the mind state of curiosity.
I consider it to be powerful
because it's the, well, what I
consider to be the opposite of fear.
If fear causes us to turn away,
curiosity causes us to turn toward.
If fear presupposes that
something is unsafe, curiosity
presupposes that something is safe.
And as a mind state that we can
bring into our meditation practice,
it has a lot of implications for
our healing, growth and integration.
Because when you think of all the ways
that we get dis-integrated, that we
further fracture the various parts within
us, the parts that we think shouldn't be
expressed, that feel difficult emotions
that we don't like, all of that can lead
to a glorified compartmentalization of who
we are, where we're only showing up as a
partial version of ourselves in the world.
And the big work of any sort of healing
and growth into the full expression of our
humaness is to create an internal space
where these different parts of us, at the
very least, are given the permission to be
seen and normalized rather than just cast
it out into the shadows of our awareness.
And this is where curiosity can be
quite powerful because as you're
going through your meditation
practice, you'll inevitably come
across things that are uncomfortable.
It's just the nature of engaging in
a practice that is turning inward.
You might have periods that are
really peaceful, joyful, and loving.
And then other periods of your
practice, where it's like,
Whoa, I'm navigating a lot.
In those moments, the tendency can be
to get, to further reinforce internal
resistance, where we start pushing
against these experiences and we
want to kind of push them back into
the shadows where they're not seen.
But they still continue
to create issues for us.
So curiosity is just this gentle
mind state that allows us to
meet what is here with interest,
with care, with non-judgment.
It just seeks to understand
what is this experience like.
It's not trying to fix it, make
it better, make it different.
And that's where the healing capacity is.
If you think of one of the things a good
therapist does, they create an environment
for, for another person to, to express
themselves fully, to feel safe, to be
seen, for all the different aspects of
them, to be able to come to the surface
and held in a compassionate environment.
Well, you can do that internally.
And curiosity is the mind state that,
that communicates that to these parts of
us that are so used to being pushed away.
So when you notice these experiences
arise in your practice, and in your day
to day life, you can just ask yourself.
What is it like to feel this?
What is this experience like?
What am I noticing?
And do you hear the difference in
that versus something like, why is
this here or this shouldn't be here.
What's wrong with me for feeling that?
All of that further disintegrates us.
And what we're interested in is
more wholeness, more integration,
more full embodiment of all the
different aspects of ourselves.
That is how we grow into full,
embodied, expressed human beings.
So thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
And see if you could bring a little
bit more curiosity to your practice.
Talk to you soon.
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