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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'm going to
share a new word with you, querencia.
Querencia means a place where you
feel safe and at home, where you are
your most authentic self, a place
from which your strength is drawn.
I really love this word.
I came across it recently and it made me
think of recharging myself, especially
that, that last part of that definition,
a place from which your strength is drawn.
I know a handful of places in my life
that are physical places, but also
places that I go to internally, where
I recharge myself, where I reconnect
to my different strengths, where if
I'm depleted, I can go to restore.
Some of these are physical
locations, as I said.
Places within my apartment
or places nearby.
Walking trails, that when I
go there, there's a, there's
a sense of it's okay to be me.
It's okay to let down my guard.
It's okay to, to go slowly.
And something about that is restorative.
And it's also made me think of
other times in my life where
I didn't have that as much.
And it kept me in more
of a stressed out state.
So I don't know where you are in your
life or how you might relate to the idea
of having a place like this, a querencia.
But my encouragement today, is to
explore what that could look like in
your life and what it could look like to
reconnect to those places more frequently.
A place where you feel safe and at home,
where you are your most authentic self, a
place from which your strength is drawn.
The beautiful thing about what we're doing
here in these practices is that where
we're developing that place internally.
But we also need to recognize that those
external locations are really important.
Our environment absolutely informs
how we feel internally, the sense
of safety we can experience here.
And so I encourage you to look at the
places around you that you do go to, to
feel safe and at home, where you do go
to, to restore and replenish yourself.
And specifically, where can you
go, a place you can go from which
your, your strength is drawn,
where you reconnect to that.
Life is ebbing and flowing, and we
have to go into experiences that
can be uncomfortable periodically.
And it's important when we step out of
those that we can come back to something,
where we can be ourselves, where we can
feel authentic and where we can replenish.
So take some time today to assess
what that might look like for you,
and also have maybe a plan for how
you can connect to those places
more frequently in your life.
I think it'll go a really long way
for helping your mindfulness journey
and also leading to more wellbeing
and contentment in your life.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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