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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 releasing patterns of conditioning.
Now the interesting thing about
mindfulness practice is that it tends
to have a transformative quality
to our patterns and habits without
us even intending for it to do so.
There's something about bringing
more awareness to our experiences as
they're already happening that tends
to have a transformative quality.
We start to learn more why we're doing
what we're doing, all the twists and
turns that we take on our life path.
And instead of going through that
on automatic pilot, we see, Oh, when
this thought arises, it triggers this
emotion, which triggers this action.
And in those ways we get much
more granular in seeing the,
the causal mechanisms for why
we do what we do in the world.
But also there's something to
bring in more awareness to our
experience that allows old patterns
to actually complete themselves.
And we can look at that through
the lens of, let's say an emotion.
So all emotions have as their
nature to be like a sine wave.
They arise and then they pass away.
And in fact, the research shows that
most emotions only last about 90 seconds,
which is kind of crazy to hear when
you hear it for the first time, because
it's like, well, all the emotions
I have do not last only 90 seconds.
They last for a long time.
And the reason for that is because,
typically when they arise, they
peak, especially a difficult emotion.
And then we get in the way of it with
thoughts of, I shouldn't be having
this experience, when's this going
to pass, or I need to suppress this.
And that actually prevents the
emotion from continuing its course
and coming to a full completion
where we come back to baseline.
Instead it gets stuck in the
background of our awareness
and continues to be reinforced.
So there are a lot of patterns of
conditioning within us that are sort of
lingering there from many years ago and
just continue to work in the background,
continuing to create habits, patterns,
things that we repeatedly do in the world.
However, when we bring more awareness,
we're deepening our sense of presence.
And it's allowing those experiences to
actually be felt fully and then released.
We're no longer suppressing the
completion of those experiences,
which can be true for thoughts.
It can be true for emotions and
it can even be true for pains that
arise in the body, that we might
try to deny, push away or not allow
ourselves to experience fully.
There are endless experiences that I've
had in my meditation practice, that
when I bring full presence to them,
it might intensify for a period of
time, but then it actually transitions.
So the key thing I want you to remember
and take away from this daily mindfulness
is that when something is in the
background, it's being reinforced.
But when it's in the
foreground it's being released.
The good news is we're already
doing this with our mindfulness
practice, and we'll continue to
deepen this with our meditation.
Thank you for your practice and let's
settle in for today's meditation.
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