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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 letting
go of limiting thoughts and beliefs.
So I'm going to invite you to
consider a metaphor for this.
Have you ever had the experience
of someone coming to your front
door to sell you something?
It, maybe some of you who are younger
won't have experienced this, but for those
who grew up pre-internet days, and I might
be showing my age here, people used to
come knocking at the door, selling things.
Maybe they'd sell encyclopedias
or vacuum or some makeup.
So somebody would come to
your front door and they would
start their sales pitch, right?
Could I interest you
in this vacuum cleaner?
How's your normal one operating?
You could probably upgrade it and
your floors will look amazing.
So, now, I never bought anything
from a door to door salesman.
I would just really simply and
politely say, no, thanks and
just wish them well on their way.
And in some ways this offers a really
nice metaphor for how our minds generate
these ideas and beliefs trying to
kind of get us to buy into something.
These thoughts come knocking at the
door of our awareness and try to kind
of give us their sales pitches of
beliefs and judgments and opinions.
Now if a door to door salesman came
with his vacuum and he started his
sales pitch to you, it's really
unlikely that you would just yell,
take my money I'm in without actually
listening to the rest of his pitch.
But this is often what we do with
limiting beliefs and thoughts.
We just buy into them immediately
without much consideration.
So with our minds, when they come to
the door of our awareness, you know,
we can hear that sales pitch and
just kind of politely say, no, thanks
mind, and just leave it at that.
Now I don't mean to say that we should try
and push the thought away or block it out.
What I'm saying is that we can
just know that our mind is a
thought generating machine.
It's constantly chatting away and
pitching us all kinds of things.
It wants us to believe in.
But we don't have to buy them.
That's a choice we have.
If we do buy into everything, we
might end up with a mental house
full of junk and clutter that
weighs us down and makes us suffer.
So we can become a little
bit more discerning with what
beliefs and thoughts we buy into.
And when we hear one that's not
helpful, we can simply smile kind
of at the mind politely and just
mentally say no, thanks mind.
So to be clear again, we don't
have to get rid of the thought.
We simply don't buy into it.
So today, as you go about your day, just
remembering, you don't have to buy into
everything the mind tries to sell you.
May be a good sales pitch, but if
you don't find it useful, you can
just kind of mentally smile to
yourself and say, no, thanks mind.
And then just put your attention
back onto something more nourishing.
In this way, you have a clearer,
lighter mind and heart and more ease
and awareness throughout the day.
So as always thank you for your
practice and your presence here
and just inviting you now to
settle in for today's meditation.
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