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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?
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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 feeling good.
So I'll start with a provocative, but
perhaps intuitive statement, which is that
everything is easier when you feel good.
We tend to be more
patient when we feel good.
We tend to feel like we have more
energy for life when we feel good.
We tend to feel like more of our
best selves when we feel good.
Feeling good is important.
And I do think it's something
that we should try to
cultivate more of in our life.
Now a lot of times we go about
feeling good in destructive ways.
We might use substances to get there
or we might use short, quick fixes
to try to feel good in the moment,
but it has long-term consequences.
So one longer term, sustainable way to
feel good is to start meditating, which
we do a lot of here at Mindfulness.com.
But the interesting thing about meditation
and its relationship to feeling good is
that, in order to meditate, you actually
have to stop trying to feel good.
And what I mean by that is that it's
often our attachment to feeling a certain
way in the meditation that actually
gets in the way of the meditation,
because the orientation where often
taking in most forms of meditation,
especially mindfulness meditation, is
allowing this moment to be here as it
is without pushing against everything
we don't like, without trying to
grasp all the things that we do want.
Both of that, right, the pushing and the
pulling, these are just more forms of
tension that we create in relationship
to the experience that's arising.
And so in many ways, meditation is the
process of no longer trying to feel good.
But it's also the process of no
longer trying not to not feel good.
It's making space for
what is here within us.
But the cool thing about that is when
we inhabit that relationship to our
experience, there's a spaciousness, an
ease, something in us gets to relax.
And that orientation to our
experience is inherently pleasant.
It brings a natural kind of
joy and clarity and ease.
So let's sum this up in three lines.
Everything is easier when you feel good.
To feel good, just start meditating.
And to meditate, just
stop trying to feel good.
Have some, some fun trying to
contemplate that one today.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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