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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 share with you what I
like to call my mantra of understanding.
So adopting this mantra and
this way of seeing and being has
radically changed my relationship
to not only myself, but to others.
And the mantra is this: Everyone
is doing the best they can
with the resources they have.
Everyone is doing the best they
can with the resources they have.
So at first, this might be
a hard concept to swallow.
You know, we might think about the
parent or partner who hurt us in the
past, the friend of ours who continues
with self-destructive behavior.We
might think about the rude person
at work, or we might even think
about our own mistakes and regrets.
And it's really easy to think that we
could have, or we should have done a
lot better than we did or they should
have or could have done a lot better.
In other words, it's really easy to
get into this habit of criticizing,
fault-finding judging, putting
people down for not coping with
life in the same way that we do.
And when people behave in ways that
we feel really hurt by, it's easy to
demonize them and, you know, become really
resentful and bitter and judgemental.
We all do this from time to time.
But here's the thing, truly,
none of us wants to suffer.
We all want to be happy.
And I think we've all experienced times
when we wished that we could have done
better, but we just didn't know how,
or we couldn't break free of our old
conditioning or reactivity or old habits.
And being judged or criticized
for it wouldn't have helped.
And we've all made mistakes,
we all get reactive sometimes,
we all have our own conditioned
patterns that we have to deal with.
And we all deal with things really
unskillfully sometimes, not because of
an intent to harm, but just because we
got caught up in our own stuff, you know.
And many people have never had a chance
to learn skills to deal with their
wounds, their fears and their flaws.
They might not know how to be less
reactive, how to be less angry,
how to be less afraid, how to be
less anxious, how to be more nice.
You know, thinking that they should
know better when they don't, only
breeds disconnection, tension, stress,
both within ourselves and without.
But really everyone really
is doing the best they can
with the resources they have.
And I know for myself, when I remember
that fact that life is better.
You know I'm more able to step out of
blame, judgment, anger, and step into self
compassion, forgiveness and understanding,
not only with others, but with myself too.
It also gives me the clarity of
mind and heart to really clearly
communicate my needs, my boundaries
and my feelings instead of getting
caught up in negativity and judgment.
So the invitation today, is to see
if you can remember the mantra of
understanding in the days ahead
and just experiment with this and
see what it brings into your life.
So I hope it really serves you
well, and thank you for your
practice and your presence here.
And let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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