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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 the
difference between fighting
the old and building the new.
So let's start with a quote by Socrates.
He said, "The secret of change is to
focus all of your energy, not on fighting
the old, but on building the new."
Now as a general prescription for
our growth, I do think there is
a lot of wisdom in this quote.
I also think it could be misinterpreted
because one of the key things about
this quote, as it relates to relating
to the old stuff, is he's talking about
not putting energy on fighting the old.
It's not saying not to address the old.
And there's a difference between fighting
the old versus going into the old with
a curiosity, a spaciousness, and an
interest in, you know, where's this coming
from, how might I work to heal this,
what sort of attention does this need?
That's very different than feeling
the old and trying to overcome,
it power through it, resent it,
create an enemy in relationship to.
However, I do think though what Socrates
is pointing to is that if we want to
change and we want to create a future that
we're excited to live into, we need to
put a lot of our energy in that direction.
What are we trying to build?
Get our thoughts aligned with
that, our emotions lined with that,
our actions aligned with that.
So my personal prescription
is, is that there's a balance.
If we're on that path to building
something, but we feel like we're caught
up in self-sabotage and it's like, we
get closer to it, but then something
in a stops or we turn around or we
actually destruct the whole thing, which
is a common experience, then we might
want to look at what's going on in our
past that may be leading to this, that
maybe has some subconscious fear of
actually having a certain kind of life.
And if that's the case, then, you
know, therapy can be really useful
and even just holding space for
those difficult emotions so that they
can process integrate and be seen.
The main thing I want you to ask following
this Daily Mindfulness is just, where
do you direct most of your energy?
Do you direct it toward
fighting the old stuff?
Or do you direct it toward
building the new and an excitement
of who you're growing into?
And if you are primarily in the former
category of fighting the old, then what
would it look like for you to invest more
time and energy toward getting excited
about the life you're excited to live and
you want to live and is compelling to you?
And how could you align your energy,
your thoughts, your behaviors, your
emotions in that direction, rather than
just focusing on, I need to fix all of
this stuff or overcome all this stuff
before I can start living that life?
It may be the case that a lot of
that stuff takes care of itself as
you start walking this new journey.
Something to consider.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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