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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
10 Science-Backed Benefits of 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 the
idea of taking an attention diet.
So these days it's been said that
our attention is under siege.
There are a few ways in which our
attention is really being pulled at.
First, there's just a massive amount of
stuff to pay attention to these days.
And just the more stuff there is to
pay attention to, the more difficult
it is to choose what to focus on.
And it's not only that is it?
Because these days it's also really
easy to find your attention being
pulled into consuming, what I
would call, just mental junk food.
Whether it's scrolling on your
phone, surfing the web, flicking
magazine pages, or just being
buffeted by marketing messages.
You know, in the same way that a lot of
junk food can harm our bodies, the huge
growth of junk information in the past
decades has really been bad for our minds.
So if you care to experiment with
the idea of taking an attention
diet, here's how it can work.
It's really simple.
The diet has two parts.
One is to consume just less information in
general, but especially junk information.
And then that can open up a little more
space in your life for other things.
And two, you know, it's really
decide to deliberately find highly
nutritious, uplifting sources of
healthy information and build your
habits in your life around them.
So the attention diet works very,
very similar to a nutritional diet
by cutting out a lot of unhelpful
consumption for a period of time.
Your body and mind adjusts and
becomes healthier and stronger.
And often, eventually you just no
longer crave so much for a fix of
the junk because your whole system
has kind of recalibrated how good
it feels to stop consuming it.
So if you're interested in giving
this a try, the kinds of stuff
that you might think of as junk
information is information that's
sensational, emotionally charged,
stuff that really isn't important,
helpful, or useful to you.
And also any of those addictive loops
where you find yourself just scrolling,
clicking, or watching without being
fully conscious of what you're doing.
Now offline in the real world, junk
information might be gossip, unhelpful
relationships or environments or
people who don't treat you well.
So, and the nutritious information that
you might want to increase is information
that's reliable, well thought out,
helpful to you and relevant to your life.
Nutritious information
uplifts you, supports your
personal growth and wellbeing.
And informs you about things
that are really important
for you to know in your life.
Now in the real world, nutritious
connections are often with
people who treat you well, where
there's mutual trust and respect.
People who speak thoughtfully
and kindly and make you feel
better when you're around them.
Similarly, environments such
as being in nature, being in a
supportive community group, these
can make a big difference too.
So if this sounds like it might be of
benefit to you in your life where you're
at right now, I invite you to have a
little experiment with this this week.
You might like to change only one
or two small things in your diet.
But you might also feel like
you want to do a bigger change.
I'll leave that up to you.
But whatever you decide, I
wish you really well with this.
And I hope it leaves you feeling more
uplifted, clear-headed, and happy.
Thank you for your practice
and your presence here with us.
And now let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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