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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 the hidden power of acceptance.
So I want to start by sharing a quote.
"Deep acceptance of another
person is often the doorway to
deep acceptance of ourselves.
Since so much of what we resent in
other people is a reflection of what
we've disowned in ourselves, meeting
another person with curiosity, compassion
and love is an essential component in
our journey toward becoming whole."
It's a powerful practice to notice
how others trigger you and then to
ask yourself, what about this person
have I committed to not becoming?
Why?
Where does that internal
agreement stem from?
Do I fear deep down that I have
the potential to be similar?
Have I been similar to this person
in the past, but experience a loss
of safety and love because of it?
I'm not a huge fan of the spiritual trope
that says we're all mirrors for each
other, because I think it can be used to
pathologize one's intuition that something
is off in another person or situation.
For example, you know, if we are
triggered, there must be something
in us that's unintegrated.
I don't really like going into that.
To me, that's dangerous territory.
But we also don't need to throw
out the baby with the bath water.
Our experience of others can,
and often is, a mirror for
our experience of ourselves.
We just need to be able
to hold the nuance.
So acceptance is not endorsement.
You can seek to understand why a person
is the way they are and see the seeds
of that behavior in yourself while still
holding boundaries toward their behavior.
There's a big difference between casting
a part of yourself into the shadows and
then projecting the hate you hold toward
that part on anyone who expresses it
versus holding that part of yourself
with compassion and presence, which
would be integration, and voicing
your concern about how its expression
in other people might be causing
harm, to you, others or the planet.
So this is just one of the big issues
that I, I sometimes see with cancel
culture, which is often, there can
be a refusal of people to also look
at how that which they condemn in
others may also exist in themselves.
So I do believe we would get further
in our quest for connection, empathy,
and harmony if more of us took the
time to reflect on where the seeds
of the behavior we condemn in other
people may also exist in ourselves
rather than impulsively othering
people because of our projections.
So something to think about
on your mindfulness journey.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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