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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, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today, I'm going to talk about how to
create more psychological flexibility.
So as we go about daily life, being
able to be a little bit flexible in
our way of thinking is a necessary
skill for navigating life's
inevitable changes and challenges.
By being flexible, we can adapt to
new circumstances and events as they
arrive, whether it's starting a new
relationship, dealing with health
challenges or trying to make big
decisions or working through conflict.
Being mentally flexible helps us
to handle it all more effectively.
It also aids our personal growth and
our ability to thrive in the world.
However, sometimes we just tend
to get kind of stuck in certain
thoughts and behavior patterns.
We get stuck in our ways, as they say,
fixed in our views, rigid in our thinking.
Now, when these happens, it's not
because there's anything wrong with you.
Your mind is operating
as it evolved to operate.
Our minds like certainty.
And so they lock into certain fixed
patterns because really, there's a huge
number of things to think about every day.
And if we reconsidered everything
every time we needed to make a
decision, we'd never get anywhere.
But just because this tendency is
helpful in that it really helps us not
become overwhelmed by information, it
doesn't mean that we should just let this
tendency run wild without supervision.
Why?
Because, well, if you have a fixed
belief, like I'm not smart enough to
run a business or I can't trust people,
or I'm hopeless with money, I'll
always be broke or relationships never
work out for me, or I can't do this.
If you have thoughts like that and
you stay fixed in those beliefs,
you're likely to stay stuck in
unhelpful ways of relating to
yourself and the world around you.
But mental flexibility, the skill of
training your mind to be open to new,
more helpful thoughts and perspectives,
gradually releases us from the grip
of those fixed unhelpful beliefs.
So how do we develop more
psychological flexibility?
Well, mindfulness practice is really
a fundamental skill here because
mindfulness opens up a space in our mind
in which we can step back from thoughts
so we're no longer so identified with
them, we're no longer having to buy into
them so we're not caught in their grip.
The other thing you can do, besides
mindfulness, is deliberately question
unhelpful thoughts when they arise.
So you can ask yourself, is this
thought or belief useful or helpful?
If it's not, you can just let
it go or you could choose to try
on a more empowering thought.
So for instance, your mind
says, I'm not smart enough.
You might choose to think,
well, Hey, I won't know if
I'm smart enough until I try.
So let's give it a try.
Anything's possible with enough
determination and patience.
So by practicing mindfulness and
questioning thoughts, you can shift from
being stuck in rigidity to developing
mental flexibility and you'll become
gradually less reactive and stressed, and
more resilient, positive, and empowered.
As always, thank you for your practice
and your presence here with us.
And now let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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