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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, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today, I'm going to talk
about a mindfulness practice
I call minding the gap.
So in between every song note,
there's a bit of silence.
Between every written
word, there's a space.
In between the movement of the
out-breath and the in-breath,
there's a moment of stillness.
In between every thought, there's
a moment of pure awareness.
And when we start to pay attention to
those moments, the little gaps that lie in
between things, we can find opportunities
to pause, to be present, and ground
ourselves in the calm, wisdom and strength
that lies at the heart of who we are.
So how can we actually
practice minding the gaps?
In meditation, one way is to become really
aware of the gap in between the breaths
and to make that the focus of meditation.
Perhaps even following the out breath
all the way to the last moment of
the exhale, and then really leaning
into that moment of stillness
just before the new breath begins.
It may be only half a second.
But it's a really wonderful practice.
And I'm going to guide you through a
practice of this in today's meditation.
But you can also mind the
gap in everyday life, too.
There's moments when you finish a task
and you really don't have anything
that you have to rush to next.
There are moments when the house is quiet,
moments when you're in relative peace.
Now most of the time when these
little gaps come, we tend to fill
them up and quickly start doing again.
But my invitation for today and for the
rest of this week, if you care to, is
to relish those moments of stillness.
Open yourself to them fully.
Just take a pause from the
momentum of your life to simply be.
Lean into the gaps.
So see if you can invite more
moments of pause, more moments of
stillness and presence into your day.
A one minute pause in between tasks,
a two minute rest under a tree, a
short pause, or maybe even one deep
breath before sending an email.
That's the invitation to
practice today and ongoing.
Give yourself permission to mind
the gaps, to enjoy moments of
stillness and be nourished by them.
Let them fill you up and anchor you
in the calm depths of mindfulness.
As Jared Brock once said, "Inner
stillness is the key to outer strength."
So as always, thank you for your
practice and your presence here with us.
And let's settle in now
for today's meditation.
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