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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'm going to
share a simple language shift you can
use to move toward greater internal
safety, wholeness, and integration.
Now, a lot of times where we get
caught in disintegration, that is
creating an oppositional relationship
with parts of ourselves, is when we
experience parts that we don't like.
Emotions that are painful, sensations
that are difficult to experience.
And this causes us to get caught
in a mentality of why is this here?
Why am I feeling this?
And can you hear the, the
judgment imbued in that languaging?
Also the tone of it is frustrated.
Why is this here again?
We could change that tone
to be, Oh, why is this here?
And that would be leading with a
little bit more curiosity and openness.
But a lot of times, I don't know
about you, it can be easy to feel
an emotion of sadness or fear, and
then go, why am I feeling this?
And so in those moments, my encouragement
to you is going to play around with
shift from why am I feeling this,
to, what is it like to feel this.
Why am I feeling this, to,
what is it like to feel this.
And see if you could feel the
difference just in hearing that.
Why am I feeling this?
To, what is it like to feel this?
When we get caught up in, why am
I feeling this were assessing the
situation based on perhaps past
experiences that we've had or based on
experiences that we want to be having.
And we're looking at what we're currently
experiencing, experiencing, and going,
this doesn't match up to either of those.
And so it puts us in a linear
relationship to our life.
Past future.
Does this fit where I want
to be and where I'm heading.
And what that does is it
makes us frustrated with our
present moment experience and
wanting to get someplace else.
Now, the thing with that is there
are always going to be experiences
that arise that are frustrating,
that we don't particularly like.
That maybe aren't as pleasant
as full gratitude and joy.
And so if we're constantly trying
to get out of those experiences or
we're frustrated at ourselves for
experiencing those things, we're setting
ourselves up for a lifetime of tension.
But when we shift the language to what
is it like to feel this, well, that takes
us out of this relationship of trying
to get someplace else or thinking that
we should feel something other than
what we're feeling and drops us more
into presence with what we're feeling.
It allows us to lead with curiosity,
with interest and with, with a sense of
like, I'm genuinely interested in what
it's like to be with this experience
right now as another part of being human.
And when we're doing that, we're
welcoming this part of our experience
into the wholeness of who we are,
which leads to a deeper internal
safety, integration and yes, wholeness.
So there are of course times where asking,
why am I feeling this can be useful,
especially if it's related to our health.
And we're wondering, okay, this
seems to be out of nowhere.
What does this mean?
But a lot of times it's just coming
from a place of resentment and anger.
And in those moments, my encouragement
is to play around with shifting that
language from why am I feeling this,
to, what is it like to feel this.
Try it out.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle into our meditation.
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