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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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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
the philosophy of no destination.
So I think when many of us come to
the practice of mindfulness, we have
these idea, either consciously or
unconsciously, of fixing or perfecting
ourselves, like we're going to get
to this destination where we're going
to get it all together and everything
will be perfect from them on.
Of course, this is an idea that many of
us also have in our general lives, too.
Most of us spend actually an enormous
amount of energy and time trying
to be somebody better, trying to
be something more, trying to fix
ourselves or complete ourselves.
Really having this idea that when
we get there, where whatever our
version of there is, that's when
we're going to be finally whole.
But mindfulness does this kind of bait
and switch thing on you, where you come
to mindfulness thinking in the back
of your head in some way that you're
deficient and that you need fixing.
And mindfulness says back,
Hey, you're not broken.
You don't need fixing.
So let's change the focus from thinking
there's something wrong with you that
needs fixing to learning, to love and
accept yourself and you're life, just
as it is, just as you are right now.
So to be clear, what I'm not saying is
that we should give up all our attempts to
improve ourselves or our quality of life.
It's wonderful to have this
ability, for instance, to create
goals and move towards them.
But what I'm specifically talking about
here is our mental dialogue and our way
of relating to ourselves in general.
So, you know, if we're always
criticizing ourselves, pointing out
our flaws, putting ourselves down,
wishing that we were different or
better, then when do we ever get to
feel like we're enough just as we are?
When do we ever get to stop
waging battle with ourselves and
allow ourselves to be in peace?
You know, I've trained in mindfulness
in a pretty intensive and dedicated
way over the years, the decades.
And I certainly haven't ended up in
some kind of perfected state where
I feel only pleasant emotions, and
I have no difficulties in my life.
Not at all.
Do I suffer in stress a
lot less than I used to?
Absolutely.
Do I have a deeper sense of meaning,
connection and peace in my life?
A hundred percent.
And I also still struggle sometimes
and I deal with messy, painful
things and not always gracefully.
I still mess up.
I'm still learning so much and evolving.
If anything, after all these years, what
I see more clearly and accept now is that
that's just not how human life works.
There's no perfected state that
we're going to reach where it all
just comes together and nothing
messy or hard ever happens.
We're not going to live in bliss.
There's no destination.
But if we can learn to unwind the
idea of reaching some future perfected
state and appreciate who we are in
this moment, we really learned to feel
much more at home within our own skin,
within our own mind, and ultimately
within the journey of our own lives.
So today, if you care to, if this
resonates with you, see if you
can remember and hold close the
philosophy of no destination.
As always, thank you for your
practice and your presence here.
And let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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