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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?
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Mindfulness 101: A Beginner's Guide
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Hi, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today we're going to talk about what
it means to be in a state of grace.
I'd like to share a quote by spiritual
teacher Eckhart,Tolle to begin.
He says, "To offer know resistance
to life is to be in a state
of grace, ease and lightness."
So I'd like to unpack and explore
what he's talking about here.
First of all, what would he
mean by resistance to life?
Well, there's a very persistent
idea in the mind that the present
moment should be other than it is,
should be different than it is.
Often, we simply dislike a
part of what's showing up.
So we resist it.
Or we might have an idea of how
we want the moment to be better.
You know, there's this feeling
that the moment is not good enough.
We don't want it as it is.
That's resistance.
It's a basic nonacceptance of what is,
and because of resistance, we suffer.
By learning to accept life as it
is, we let go of resistance and we
can enter what Eckhart's talking
about here, this state of grace.
A state, basically of just being at
peace with what's happening, befriending
it and being fully open to it.
Now, this is quite a tricky topic to talk
about in one regard, because when we talk
about acceptance, often people immediately
start to think, well, if I just accept
things as they are in the moment, I'll
just be everybody's doormat and I'll lose
my sense of purpose and direction in life.
But that's not what I'm talking about
here, because from the state of grace,
you absolutely can take action to change
things where that's possible or needed.
And you can do that from a peaceful,
clear, and calm state of being.
In fact, you can take more effective
action to change things when
you're not caught up in emotional
reactivity and negativity that
often comes along with resistance.
In short, you can accept
what is, and then act.
And of course there's many things in
life that we tend to resist wish were
different or better, but actually
we have no control over them at all.
And a lot of the mental and emotional
tension that's caused by resisting those
things just causes a lot of stress and
sometimes actually very deep suffering
and exhaustion in the body and mind.
If we're able to practice noticing
when we're resisting something in the
present moment, we can acknowledge
that resistance and learn to let it go.
We can practice accepting and
befriending the moment as it is,
and entering that state of grace.
And in that state of grace, we have a
clear mind, a centered awareness and so
from there, you know, we can take action
to change things if we need to, or we can
be at peace with those things, we cannot.
And in this way, we flow with the
current of life instead of wasting
energy struggling against it.
Then we can carry peace of
mind with us wherever we go.
So as always, thank you for your practice
and for your presence here with us.
And let's settle in now
for today's meditation.
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