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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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Hey, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going to
be talking about shifting gears.
So I sometimes like to think
of being human as being a
car that has different gears.
We have park, which might be when
we're sleeping or doing nothing.
There's first gear where
we're moving up there.
Second gear, third gear, fourth gear.
And then fifth gear where we're really
in the throes of our life, really
moving quickly, really doing a lot.
I think a lot of times as when we come to
a meditation practice or even we start to
get interested in mindful living, there's
often a sense that we're supposed to be
totally zenned out or in first gear all
the time, very calm, not running for
bus, always at peace and always at ease.
Maybe that's the case, but
it hasn't been my experience.
And most of the meditation teachers
I know spend a lot of time in third
gear, fourth gear and fifth gear.
It's a natural part of
being a human being.
And part of developing a mindfulness
practice is not being in first
gear all the time, but it's being
able to assess the moment and
see what gear do I need to be in.
Is this a first gear kind of moment?
Do I have some time where I can take a
break, where I'm just sitting in my car,
not going anywhere, not needing to do
anything, just having the time to relax?
And can I give myself
permission to be in first gear?
Or am I at work and I have a lot
of emails to take care of and
there's a lot that needs to get
done, a lot that I'm excited about.
I'm feeling that energy
moving in that direction.
Is that a fourth gear
moment, a fifth gear moment?
And can I give myself
permission to be in those gears?
A lot of times, we don't give
ourselves permission to be in
the gear that we need to be.
And it often creates a
lot of extra tension.
It makes me think of the Zen poem,
uh, that says, "When running,
just run, when walking, just walk.
Above all, don't wobble."
A lot of times we tend to wobble.
We're on vacation, but we're guilty
because we think we need to be working
more or at work, but we're frustrated
because we want to be on vacation.
We don't actually give ourselves
to be in the experience that
we're in, um, the permission.
And we don't allow ourselves
to be in the gear that we need
to be in, in those moments.
So as you go about your day, see if you
can start to assess with mindfulness,
what does this moment ask of me?
What gear do I need to be in?
And can you start to give yourself
permission to be in that gear?
And then when it's a different gear,
permission to drop into that as well.
That's a mindfulness practice and that's
bringing mindfulness into your daily life.
We'll practice more of
this in the meditation.
So stay tuned.
I'll talk to you soon and take care.
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