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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, and welcome to your daily mindfulness.
So yesterday I spoke about
listening to ourselves.
And today, I'm going to follow
on with this theme and talk
about knowing ourselves.
So don't worry if you didn't tune in
yesterday, you can pick up here just fine.
So I think one of the big misconceptions
that goes around about mindfulness is
that we're going to be able to, I guess,
kind of escape ourselves in some way.
We might want to escape certain emotions
or certain parts of ourselves, you know.
But mindfulness really is not
about getting rid of any part
of ourselves or our experience.
It's about looking deeply into
who we already are and how life
already is and befriending it.
So it's really not about
escaping ourselves.
It's about knowing ourselves and
then being ourselves more fully.
So when we learn this skill of really
genuinely becoming comfortable in the
present moment and abiding in it with
clarity, compassion, and curiosity, we
often discover inner peace in the process.
So you might think that when you're
meditating and we're focusing on the
breath or the sensations in the body
that we're doing that to get away from
ourselves, but actually we're doing
that and moving closer to ourselves.
We're becoming more intimate with
our experience of who we are.
We're becoming more familiar with how our
mind is, how our emotions are and we're
coming into contact with deeper dimensions
of ourselves, with awareness itself.
And so in this way, we're
seeing ourselves more clearly.
We're learning not to run away
from ourselves or escape ourselves
anymore, but truly we're practicing
this art of befriending ourselves.
And that means all of ourselves, not
just the pleasant stuff, but also the
unpleasant or difficult stuff to see.
So you might be thinking, why
would we want to befriend the
unpleasant when it shows up?
Well, simply because it's
part of the present moment.
It's part of our humanity.
And so we want to wage peace with
ourselves and with the nature of the mind.
Unless we know how to accept ourselves,
there's always going to be this
sense of being locked in battle with
ourselves, a sense of tension within.
The other reality is, is that unless we
spend time getting to know these parts
of ourselves that are a little more
difficult to see and start to understand
them, we tend to get caught up in them.
So by bringing the hard stuff into the
light of awareness, we make it less likely
that it's going to catch us in its grip.
So just remembering that mindfulness
is an opportunity to simply relax and
let thoughts and emotions be as they
are, and to let yourself be as you are.
And in doing so you can gradually create
more calm and contentment in the mind.
So as always thank you for your
practice and your presence here with us.
And let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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