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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 silence,
specifically, your inner silence.
Now a lot of times when we think of
silence, we often think of external
silence, or even when we think of
cultivating an inner silence silence
within us, we think of needing to
have external silence around us.
No screaming kids, no noise,
no traffic in the background.
And it's true that this external
silence, you know, going away into
nature or taking time to meditate in
your closet rather than, you know,
on a sidewalk next to a busy street,
can really facilitate connecting
to an internal silence within you.
But what's interesting is the more we
use external silence to drop into this
internal silence, the more we can bring
that internal silence into external
conditions, even when it's not silent.
And that's one of the
powers of meditation.
It, you know, if we take this period
of time to practice while it's quiet,
while we're still, while there isn't much
distraction, it connects us to a part
of us that is beneath the story and the
noise and the conditioning of our minds.
And I'm sure you're familiar with them.
It's the story of who you are,
where you're going, where you
need to get, what's good, what's
bad, what's right, what's wrong.
We all have that and it's often
the primary noise in our life.
But when the external world gets
quiet, it allows us to see some of that
internal noise and then drop beneath it.
And as we drop beneath that, we
connect to this place within us.
That is much more still, much
more spacious and much more quiet.
Our practice then is to bring that
into our day when the kids are
screaming, when there is traffic,
when you are taking care of emails.
That's the big task.
And that's one of the reasons I didn't
just spend my life in a monastery.
I was really interested in bringing
that quality of peace and groundedness,
stillness, and silence into my life
where I thought it really mattered.
So as you continue on with your
meditation practice, see if you can
connect to that place within you that,
that is still, that is, is silent
that's not the noise of your mind.
And then as you transition from your
meditation practice, see what it's like
to, to try to bring that into your day.
When you're standing in line at the
grocery store or when there is a lot
going on around you or when you're
walking outside and there's a lot of
noise, just see if you can feel into
that place within you that remains
silent, even when there's a lot going on.
Thank you for your practice.
Let's settle in for today's meditation.
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