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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, we're going to talk
about creating a friendship with yourself.
Now, an interesting thing happens
when you start to like yourself,
you no longer need everything you
thought you needed to be happy.
Of course, there are still many
things that we derive joy and
fulfillment from ranging, from
material things to relationships.
So this is not to dismiss the role
these things can play in bringing
us fulfillment, but a lot of how
we navigate life is subconsciously
moving toward a sense of being whole
complete, settled and at peace.
And most of the way we go about doing
this is by trying to arrange our life
in a way that gives us what we want.
Now we typically don't identify
this as a feeling of, Oh, now
I'm whole, or now I'm complete.
Instead it makes us think, well, when
that happens, then I'll be able to relax.
Or now I'm a little bit more
at peace or now I'm happier.
We have a blueprint in our mind of
having arrived, what that will look like.
And when all of the puzzle pieces come
together, then we'll have X, Y, or Z.
And most of that simply reduces to
feeling a little bit more okay with
your life, a little bit more settled.
And we can get that feeling
by manipulating the external
variables, but it tends to be
a more transient satisfaction.
There's a different sort of fulfillment
that comes when we make peace with
the many dimensions of who we are,
thoughts, emotions, internal experiences,
because this is what we take with
us through all of our circumstances.
And if we haven't trained an ability
to actually like ourselves, it doesn't
matter what's happening around us.
What I've found in my own practice
is the more I've trained my mind to
be with and relax into and appreciate
the different aspects of who I am, my
internal experience, it gives me the
feeling that I think I'm going to get
once I arrange all those puzzle pieces.
And there's never been a time where I've
got what I thought I wanted externally
and then was perfectly contained.
But I have found that I've significantly
chipped away at a much more sustainable
contentment by doing this inner work.
And for me, it's reduced
to befriending myself.
So continue to do the things
you're doing in the external world.
Have goals, make money, build
good relationships, but remember
to simultaneously develop your
relationship with yourself.
We'll talk more about
this in the meditation.
Um, As always, I just want to
say thank you for your practice.
You're doing great.
And I'll talk to you soon.
Take care.
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