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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 playful curiosity.
Eckhart Tolle once said, "Life is not as
serious as the mind makes it out to be."
And that is true.
When we we're children, most
of us kind of knew this, right?
We never took ourselves
or our life too seriously.
We had this innate curiosity about
everything, playfulness towards life.
We approached life with very
little fear or self-consciousness.
What mattered, a lot of the time,
was just exploring, discovering, and
just having fun moment by moment.
As we get older, things seem to change.
We tend to lose all of that and we do
start to take life really seriously, and
a kind of heaviness can set into the mind.
And we can bring that heaviness into
our mindfulness practice too, and
into our personal growth journey.
And while it's true, on the one
hand, that looking deeply within and
understanding ourselves is a serious
thing in the sense that our ability
to be happy and live in harmony with
the world and with others really
does depend on having a healthy mind.
But on the other hand, if we
approach mindfulness too seriously,
it just becomes really difficult.
If we can bring back into our lives
that attitude of playful curiosity, if
we can bring that especially into our
practice and into our approach to watching
the mind, then things start to shift.
Because if we can smile at the
mind and be playful and friendly
towards it, we can relax more and
not take things too personally.
Bringing in more light hearted
energy really helps us to get
a bit of space and perspective.
When I teach retreats, I often
invite people to take the attitude
of an explorer or an adventure.
Almost, I say to them, it's almost like
being a wildlife photographer, tracking
some fascinating creature when we watch
the mind, to have this attitude of kind
of sitting back and just watching the
antics of the mind and not getting too
worried about it or caught up in it.
Just being curious, open and observing.
Also being open to playing with the mind
to see how our mindfulness skills can
potentially change or affects things.
And, you know, when we practice
that skill, really being
curious about the effect.
So trying different things out
in the laboratory of your life.
I like the term the monkey
mind that people use sometimes.
It reminds us to kind of almost view
the mind as this innocent, naughty
creature that doesn't really know any
better and just needs a bit of training.
It's kind of like, you know, having this
attitude of, oh my gosh, what is the
monkey mind getting up to in there today?
And just of kind of smiling at the
mind and then lovingly using our
mindfulness skills to train it to be
healthier, more balanced and happy.
So if we can have this light,
easygoing relationship with the mind,
then mindfulness becomes a lot more
joyful, uplifting and nourishing.
So my invitation for today.
Bring an attitude of playful
curiosity into your mindfulness
practice and into your life.
And then see what effect that
has on you and on your practice.
We'll be playing with this a little
bit more in today's meditation.
So I invite you to settle in for that.
And as always, thank
you for your practice.
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