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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.
You know, it's been said that
there are only two basic motivating
forces in life, love and fear.
Our primal minds often
default to the latter.
And perhaps the greatest gift of
mindfulness is that it offers us the
choice to step out of the conditioning of
the mind and find our center in awareness
and let our actions flow from love.
Now, while fear is a perfectly natural
emotion, when it takes us over, it
often hijacks our ability to act
with awareness, purpose, and clarity.
So how do we learn to face fears
in a healthy way so they no
longer define us or hold us back?
I would argue we can
do this in three steps.
Step one, name it, to tame it.
So when you feel fear arising, whether
it's in the form of self-doubt, worry,
you know, that fear that you're not
enough, that unworthiness or social
anxiety or any form of fear, soon as
you recognize that you just mentally
note to yourself, ah, fear is here.
Research shows that simply naming
the emotion makes us less reactive
to it and can actually reduce the
intensity of the emotion by up to 50%.
The next step, thank the fear.
It's in our primal human nature for
our minds to want to protect us.
So if the mind detects a threat of
any kind, it might start to make a
lot of noise in the form of fear.
So you can think of your mind as
being like your inner security guard.
It's just trying to protect you.
So this inner security guard might
want to turn on sirens and make a
lot of noise to get your attention.
The more you ignore that noise, the more
you ignore the fear, the louder it gets.
It's only when you turn towards that
inner security guard, acknowledge that you
heard the warning, thank him for doing a
great job, that he will then know he can
relax and turn off the warning systems.
So this is how we want to work with fear.
By thanking the fear, you're doing
the psychological equivalent of
thanking that inner guard, telling
him I'm aware of what's happening.
You know, you've done your job.
You can relax now.
Step three is to act with love.
So in this step, you connect
with your core values and what
matters to you deep in your heart.
So you might ask yourself, what
would it look like to take actions
guided by love and not fear?
Maybe that would mean moving
towards a goal you really
care about despite the fear.
Maybe it would mean asking someone
on a date, helping someone who needs
support, and perhaps it would be taking
better care of your body and mind.
It might mean taking actions guided
by your values, by integrity,
courage, compassion, or patience.
Whatever that looks like, I'll leave
that exploration up to you, the main
thing is to switch the focus out of the
energy of fear and reconnect with love.
So there's three steps, name
it to tame it, thank the
mind, and then act with love.
So this is the invitation
for, for practice to work
with our fears in this way.
And as always thank you for your
practice and your presence here.
And now let's settle
in today's meditation.
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