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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, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, I want to
share a practice with you that
I call the surrender walk.
So a lot of times throughout the day and
the week and the month, I have different
decisions I need to make, decisions that
I don't have a very quick response to.
If I were to measure it out on an Excel
spreadsheet and look at the pros and the
cons, I can think through it logically,
but it's not necessarily deeply aligned
with an intuitive knowing within me.
And a big part of my, you could say
spiritual work, but also mindfulness,
meditation, personal growth work
has been less about trying to figure
out how to understand something more
logically and more connected to what
is the deepest part of me saying
in relationship to this experience?
What is my deepest truth in this moment?
And so that's where the
surrender walk comes in.
I find that in order to get to that deeper
truth of understanding, I have to let go
of a lot of my ideas, at least my logical
ideas of what I should do in this moment
and really drop in and really listen.
That to me is a form of surrender.
Surrendering a certain kind
of control and surrendering a
certain kind of way of relating.
And I particularly like to
do that while I'm walking.
There's something about being outside,
especially in nature, the spaciousness
of it outside of my apartment,
that's really settling to my system.
I let myself walk as fast
or as slowly as I like.
And I really try and get my body
into a very relaxed state, one
step at a time walking forward.
And I'll just drop a
question into my awareness.
The question is some sort of
decision that I might be navigating.
Should I do this?
Should I spend time with this person?
Should I take on this opportunity or not?
Should I have this conversation?
Drop it in and then I just listen.
And the whole idea is I am surrendering.
I don't actually know the answer
to this on a logical level.
And I am opening myself to
whatever form of intuition and
guidance wants to come through.
And this might not be something
that works for you, but I wanted to
share it because I've been getting a
lot of enjoyment from this process.
And a lot of wisdom tends to
arise when I'm doing this.
In the same way that I often have my
best ideas when I'm going for a walk,
I often have my deepest intuitions when
I'm going for a walk and I allow myself
to just be held by something bigger.
And I think that's why I like this
as a walk or something to do outside
is, there's a felt sense of the
earth around me, the spaciousness of
nature, the spaciousness of the sky.
There is this feeling of I'm stepping
outside of myself and I'm, I'm
welcoming something beyond myself.
And again, your orientation to this
and the language you want to use to
describe it is, is personal to you.
This is what's working for me right now.
And if you are interested in exploring
it, I would just take some time to go
for a walk or sit outside or be outside
or it could be indoors, maybe find a
spacious place inside and just drop a
question that you're navigating into
your awareness and see what arises.
I'm letting go.
I'm open to something moving through me.
What should I do in this situation?
And then start to develop a
relationship with that pulse of
truth that's moving through you.
When we can align ourselves more with that
than just simply the rational ideas moving
through our mind, or at least combine it
with our rational way of thinking, it's
a way for us to make decisions that feel
deeply connected to the depth of who we
are rather than just cognitive exercises.
So something to think about
on your mindfulness journey.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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