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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, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're
going to talk about letting go.
One of the most common questions I
get from people is, how do I let go?
And while there are a number of different
strategies that can facilitate the
letting go process, it's important to
remember that a mindfulness meditation
practice is a practice of letting go.
So if we think about it, very
practically, let's imagine that
we're focusing on our breath.
What are we doing with that?
Every time the mind wanders, gets
caught up in a thought, we practice
releasing our grip on that thought
and coming back to the breath.
It might take a few seconds
before the mind wanders off again.
We really feel that urge to, to think
about that thought, to get caught
up in it, to ruminate about it.
But our practice is noticing the thought,
softening our grip around it, and
then bringing the attention back here.
This is a practice of letting go.
It's the practice of feeling, the
tension of holding on, wanting to follow
something, wanting to stay with something.
And then the practice of releasing
that grip, releasing that tension
and returning our attention
back to what is here right now.
If you did nothing more than this
practice over the course of your
lifetime, you would develop a mind
that is better at releasing its grip
when it is holding onto something.
So while there are many different
strategies that can lead to letting
go, that we talk about on the
mindfulness.com app, the one thing that
you can trust is a meditation practice.
The key takeaway, a moment of
mindfulness, not only leads to letting go.
It is a moment of letting go.
Thank you for your practice and I'll
talk to you soon in the meditation.
Take care.
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