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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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Hey, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going to talk
about how to inhabit the space between
stimulus and response so that you
can better respond rather than react.
So there's a popular quote
that I love to share.
It goes like this, "Between stimulus
and response there is a space.
In that space is our power
to choose our response.
And in our response lies our growth,
our freedom and our happiness."
Between stimulus and
response there is a space.
One of the reasons I love this quote
is because if I could encapsulate
in one sentence what it is I try
to do as a mindfulness teacher,
it's really to help people see that
space and then inhabit that space.
Because it's only in that space that
we can lead our lives with any sort of
intentionality, awareness, purpose or
an alignment with who we want to become.
The opposite of seeing that space
is living our lives on automatic
pilot, going through the motions,
repeating the same thoughts, patterns,
conditionings that we always have.
So a big step in starting to impact your
life in a positive way is being able
to see how in each moment, there's lots
of information, data coming through.
But as that comes through, we have the
opportunity to stop, to feel it and
choose how we want to respond to it.
One of the things that often
gets overlooked with this quote
is that it's not something to
just understand cognitively.
It's something we need to learn
how to feel, because when it comes
to reacting to a stimulus, it's
usually because that stimulus
creates a feeling and that feeling
causes us to react in a certain way.
So just think about the last
time you said something to
someone that you wish you didn't.
Say chances are, they said something
that made you angry, that angry
felt like, that anger felt like a
lot of heat in the body and that
caused you to say something or react.
What would it be like to be able to
feel that rush of energy, that rush of
sensation, to take a deep breath in it,
to be settled with it, and then be more
intentional with how you want to respond.
This day and age, that's a superpower
that most people don't have.
So the meditation practice, you
can trust that to develop this.
And as you go throughout
your day, see if you can feel
those impulses coming through.
All of that stimulation, take a breath
and see how might I respond differently.
Between stimulus and response there
is a space and in that space is
your power to choose your response.
So as always, thank you for your practice.
I'll talk to you soon and take care.
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