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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, I want to
talk about taking up space.
So one of the things that I think
can happen when we get involved in
a different contemplative practice,
such as meditation or yoga, in this
case, we're exploring mindfulness and
meditation, there can be this emphasis
on selflessness, and even like seeing
through the ego, the illusion of the ego.
And it can create this feeling of my
sense of self should become smaller.
If I am to become more selfless
and more caring that I should
take up less space in the world.
It's not always interpreted that way,
but I do see that as a phenomenon
that happens in these communities.
And I want to offer a different
perspective which is that learning
to take up space is actually
a mindfulness practice itself.
This is a little complicated because
there are certainly instances
where we need to step back.
And maybe for folks who've had it
easier in the world and it's been more
natural for them to step into their
own space or the world has made it
easier for them to be who they are.
Sometimes there is this process of
noticing when we're overpowering
someone else and there can be a role
for kind of like stepping back at times.
This doesn't mean becoming less internally
powerful or sovereign, just means
recognizing what's going on around us and
how we can also bring other people up with
us, in addition to us taking up space.
So there is that role here and
mindfulness practice helps us see that.
But for a lot of us, we do not live
fully expressed lives because we
don't believe our voice is worth
hearing or we fear being judged.
And mindfulness practice can sometimes be
a way to confirm that or to, to make it
appear like that fear is more of a virtue.
I don't feel like my voice is worth
hearing, but I'm also selfless and I
let other people's voices be heard.
Do you see how that can get twisted a bit?
Where it's not actually a
virtue, it's more of a fear.
And.
I think at the heart of, of practice,
mindfulness practice and you stepping into
your humanness, is also the recognition
that you are as worthy as anybody
else, that you have a right to be here.
You have a right to your voice.
And to be a sovereign being is to
have a right to a perspective and to
know that others have a right to their
perspective about your perspective.
All of that can make things messy, but
this is what it means to be individuals
living among each other, in community
and learning how to co-create space
and to try and live in harmony as
much as possible and cooperate toward
collective goals while also allowing
permission for individual goals.
It can be messy territory, but the one
thread that I invite you to explore
for yourself is how do you relate
to the idea of, of taking up space?
Is that something that feels
like a growth edge for you?
Do you use your mindfulness and meditation
practice to justify not taking up space?
And what would it look like to flip that
and use it as an opportunity to give
yourself permission to take up space?
A lot to consider.
But give it the day and
see how it unfolds for you.
Thank you for your practice and let's
settle in for today's meditation.
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