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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, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today I'm going to talk about
the beauty of impermanence.
So it's really natural for the
human mind to desire for things
to be stable and permanent.
So to see that everything is
changing, an impermanent is not
always an easy pill to swallow.
But there is a really great wisdom
in having a clear recognition that
everything is fleeting and changing.
The flower blooming in the vase
today will wilt and decompose.
The sun that's warming and sustaining
our planet will one day grow cold.
We are born and one day we will pass away.
Nothing is forever.
This is the bittersweet truth
that permeates the universe.
Now it's understandable to feel a
little bit of fear or sadness in the
face of impermanence, but there's
also an incredible amount of richness
and beauty available to us if we
can accept and even embrace it.
And we can actually let go of a lot of
suffering and fear by learning to roll
with impermanence instead of resisting it.
And we can even learn to embrace
wholeheartedly the magic.
And the wonder of it.
Because if you think about it, it's
only because things end that we
understand the preciousness of them.
You know, when moved by the beauty
of a sunset as it falls below the
horizon of another day of our life.
We savor the spring flowers
because we know that they're
one day going to be gone.
We aim to make the most of our lives
because on some level, whether it's
conscious or unconscious, we know that
we're not going to be here forever.
So when we stay in touch with the fact
that everything and everyone that we
see all around us will one day be gone,
we're much more likely to appreciate
and fully be present for the moment
to moment experience of our lives.
And mindfulness invites us to gently
soften our fear and resistance to change
and find acceptance and harmony with
the ever changing nature of things.
So my invitation for you today is to
see if you can bring more acceptance
to the changing nature of life.
See if it's possible to soften clinging
and resistance and open up to an
appreciation of the mystery of each
person, each experience, and each moment.
Embracing impermanence in this way,
we open ourselves more fully and
deeply to life and find new levels
of meaning and magic in our lives.
As Mary Oliver in her poem, Blackwater
Woods says, "To live in this world
you must be able to do three things,
to love what is mortal; to hold it
against your bones knowing your life
depends on it; and, when the time
comes to let it go, to let it go."
I wish you well with this practice today.
And now just inviting you to
settle in for today's meditation.
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