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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 we're going to talk about
how we can heal our insecurities.
Now, some people seem
really confident, right?
Like you might look at people on
social media looking really happy and
self-assured, and you would think to
yourself that they just don't experience
any sense of insecurity at all.
But if we look a little closer, we
see the same vulnerabilities and
insecurities exist within all of us.
And the reason for this basic
insecurity just has to do
with the way our mind evolved.
So we have the same basic needs is every
other animal on the planet, food, water,
shelter, reproduction, but none of
those things matter if you die, right?
So what's the number one
job of the human mind?
It's to stop you from dying.
And here's the thing, for humans
in more primitive times, fitting
in with the tribe or the group
was absolutely a survival need.
Humans did not survive alone.
They only survived in packs.
So if you got kicked out of the group,
if you got rejected, you're pretty much,
that pretty much means certain death.
Rejection meant death.
So if you ever noticed that
rejection feels like death?
This is why.
So, how does the mind go about making
sure that you always fit in with the pack?
Well, it compares you to everybody
else and assesses, you know.
Do they like me and my fitting
in, am I doing the right thing?
Am I contributing enough?
Am I offending anyone?
Am I good enough?
Does any of this sound familiar at all?
You know, these days our minds are
still doing the same thing, comparing
us to other people, assessing whether
we're measuring up, fitting, in doing
anything that could get us rejected
or have people look down on us.
And to make matters a lot worse these
days, instead of just comparing ourselves
to people in just our tribe, thanks
to the media and the internet, your
mind is now comparing you to a massive
amount of people in often in glossy
photo-shopped, you know, pictures.
So this constant comparison to so many
other members of the tribe at such
impossible standards, really aggravates
the conditioning of the human mind
and makes a lot of us feel, quite
frankly, that we're not good enough.
And this has a lot to do with
the huge rise in depression
across the world in recent years.
So what we're doing through mindfulness
is we're learning not to get rid of
thoughts and feelings of insecurity.
This is actually obviously very deep
conditioning of the mind and it will
likely always be there, but instead
we're changing the way we relate
to those thoughts and feelings.
We're learning to meet the insecurity
with kindness and understanding and
wisdom, just seeing it for what it is.
Some old conditioning in the mind doesn't
mean anything about your actual worth.
Of course it doesn't.
So these patterns of insecurity,
they kind of just become eventually
words and feelings that pass through
the mind, rather than something that
controls you, hurts you or limits you.
So as much as possible, rather
than believing in those thoughts of
deficiency or feelings of unworthiness,
see if you can take a step back
and rest in the wholeness and the
enoughness at the heart of who you are.
So I'll be guiding you through
more on how to let go of unhelpful
thoughts in today's meditation.
So, as always thank you for your
practice and for your presence here.
And I invite you to settle
in for today's practice.
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