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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, I want to talk
about why we might not need to suffer.
So I want to start by sharing
a provocative statement.
There is no amount of sadness, grief,
or pain that requires one to suffer.
There is no amount of sadness, grief,
or pain that requires one to suffer.
So just notice what
it's like to hear that.
So here's the logic around that.
These experiences, sadness, pain, grief
are, are the result of life expressing
itself through your human form.
It's natural.
It's, it's what the body
is designed to experience.
It's part of being human.
Suffering happens when we resist how the
human form is designed to experience life.
We don't like it.
We don't want what we're feeling here.
We want to push it away.
We want to be over with it.
But freedom lies in our acceptance of the
human condition and the permission to live
it fully, this moment of what's arising.
And it's true that the suffering we
create sometimes through our resistance
can be an integral and inevitable
part of how we wake up to a new
way of relating to our experience.
This is often the journey to our freedom,
our wholeness and permission, realizing
that we, we fought against an experience
for so long and it didn't help us.
It just created more tension.
Sometimes we need to go through
that feeling sad and then being
angry that we're sad and being angry
that we're angry that we're sad.
And we might not feel like
we have much control over it.
It's just a pattern, a cycle that we need
to work through until the mind really
sees there's got to be a different way.
This isn't serving me.
It's creating extra
suffering, extra tension.
And then there can be an organic release.
So we can acknowledge that.
But hopefully the, the promising nugget
of this is that there is a way to be
in relationship to painful experiences
in your life without creating this
extra layer of suffering and torment.
And that's how there can actually
be this, it's almost provocative
to say, but like a beauty in pain.
It's just tenderizing us.
It's it's opening us.
We're so surrendered to this human
experience that where we're just
brought to our knees and where we're
trusting something bigger in us
to hold it because we can't, like
the ego mind just can't hold it.
It makes no sense.
That's where surrender comes in and
it often is a doorway to a totally
different way of relating to, to our life.
So again, these are big topics and you
might not be going through something
difficult right now, or you might be
going through something very difficult.
I think the beauty of this practice is
that it allows us to engage with our life
from a place of feeling resourced without
creating extra tension, extra suffering,
or exploring when we do, and then
trying to figure out what is a different
way of relating to our experience.
Big work.
So a lot of gratitude and respect
for you being on that journey.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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