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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?
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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 honoring our emotions.
So many of us have grown up with
this idea that some emotions are
good and other emotions are bad.
For example, anger is bad.
Sadness is embarrassing and
we should hide it when we cry.
So when we believe any kind of emotion is
bad, we start to push them away often, or
we start to fight them when they arise.
And the challenge with that is that
that resistance only prolongs the
emotions and makes them bigger.
But as our mindfulness practice develops,
we learn to cultivate self-acceptance.
We discover that there's no good and
bad emotions, that they're all a natural
part of what it means to be human.
And we learn to allow them all to
arise and pass without judgement.
We learn to experience our emotions
from a greater perspective.
And we can think of our emotions
a little bit like being like
clouds that move through the sky.
And some clouds are billowing and dark.
Some are fluffy and wispy.
All coming and going in the sky
in different shapes and sizes.
And awareness is a bit like the
sky, untouched by anything that
passes through it, at peace and just
welcoming everything that arises,
letting it come and go in its own way.
So in the same way, see if it's possible
to be aware of your emotions without
labeling them or reacting to them.
Allowing them to pass through you
in their own time, in their own way.
And when you meet your emotions with
this kind of acceptance and compassion,
you really honor your emotions.
You create the inner space to make
clear headed and constructive choices
about what to do with those feelings and
how to respond to things in your life.
So I invite you to make that
a little bit of a focus today.
Just see if you can bring more acceptance
and compassion to your emotions and
experiment with how that might help you
live with more awareness and intention.
So we'll explore this
more in today's practice.
And as always, thank you for your
practice and your presence here with us.
Let's settle in for meditation.
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