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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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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, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, I want to
talk about intuitive guidance.
So there's a quote by the teacher,
Robert Adams, that I really like,
and I'd like to read it for you.
It says, "There's something
within you that knows what to do.
Surrender your thoughts, your
mind, your ego, to the current that
knows the way it will take care of.
It will take better care of
you than you can ever imagine."
Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your
ego to the current that knows the way.
This has been a deep fascination of
mine over the last years, it's felt
like, I guess you could say a missing
link in my own personal growth journey
where I've done a lot of meditation
and cultivated a lot of awareness
around my internal experience.
But in terms of how to bridge that with
making decisions in my life, it felt
like there was a gap in that education.
What is the inner voice that
I'm supposed to listen to?
And I've seen a lot of different
thoughts, a lot of different emotions.
So many of them are coming and going.
And I've also been a bit disillusioned
by any one particular thought
being the voice of guidance.
It's sort of just been, oh, it's just
another experience arising in my mind.
Curious if you've had that experience
as well in your meditation?
So I think there, there can be
this gap for people when they
develop a meditation practice.
And then a lot of those usual resources
they had, internal resources of like,
oh, I follow when my thoughts say
to do this, I do that reactively.
Once you start questioning, hmm, what
am I supposed to be listening to?
It can put us in a state of limbo.
And so I'm really curious about what
is this current that knows the way.
It is still a deep exploration in me, but
what I have found for myself is that when
I do drop beneath the noise, or when I
pay attention to everything going on in
my system, the different thoughts, the
different emotions, the different felt
senses that arise in my body or my gut,
there are deeper and deeper layers that
feel more and more aligned with my felt
sense of who I am and what feels right.
There's a sense of this is a yes or
this is a no that feels aligned with me.
It's not the thoughts that are
coming from family culture, media.
There's something that feels uniquely
mine in its orientation to this experience
of yes, no, or even an I don't know.
This is a big topic, but I want
to give you one practice you can
utilize to start getting in touch
with that intuitive guidance.
And that is to start getting clearer
on what is a yes for you, what is a no
for you, and what is an I don't know.
Now, I'm not talking about doing that
in relationship to future experiences,
which is something that we, we do want
to develop, but as a way to get in touch
with that as it already exists in you.
I encourage you to explore
experiences in your life that you
already know very deeply are a yes.
Maybe it's a certain relationship
that you know is a yes.
Maybe it's your job
that you know is a yes.
Maybe it's the love you have for
your children that you know is a yes.
And bring that into your mind and
feel what that yes feels like.
How do you know it's a yes?
Is it something in your body?
Is it something in your mind?
Is it a felt experience
or an emotion that arises?
Then do that same thing with the
things that you know are a no.
A relationship, a boundary that you
put up, something going on in the world
that you know you don't stand for?
Drop that in your mind.
What does that feel like?
What does no feel like?
How is it being communicated
to you on a deep level?
And then look at the things that
you actually don't know yet.
You're in a state of limbo.
It's like, I'm not sure
if this is a yes for me.
I'm not sure if this is a no.
There's some ambiguity there.
Drop that into your mind and into your
body and see what does that feel like.
What comes up for me in
relationship to this?
By doing this practice, you start to
get a sense of what a yes feels like, or
let's say what the experience of a yes
is, what the experience of a no is and
what the experience of an I don't know is.
And the clearer you can get on
that, the clearer you can use
it in future moments when you're
trying to make important decisions.
This to me is the beginning of our
work around intuitive guidance.
So thanks for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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