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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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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, I'm going to explore the
relationship between time and our minds.
So this immediate moment may seem
small as a concept of time, but as an
experience of time, it's never ending.
And when we take our seat in meditation,
we also take our seat in the timelessness
and the aliveness of the present moment.
But of course, we also get pulled out
of that seat in the now, again and
again, by the activity of the mind.
And if you watch this activity of the mind
really closely, what you begin to see is
the great majority of what pulls us out
of the present moment is thoughts about
the past and thoughts about the future.
So the mind has this tendency to
continually go back and replay, you know,
our mistakes, our regrets, our memories,
our whole personal story from the past.
And then for most of us even more so,
it goes into the future, anticipating
the future, maybe fearing what might
happen in the future, replaying
hopes and expectations and desires.
Doing this again and again.
So when you observe what the mind is
doing, you see that most of what it's
doing is this sort of oscillation from the
past to the future, back and forth again.
But when we remove time from
the mind, a lot of that activity
just very naturally subsides.
A lot of clutter in the
mind naturally quiets down.
So how do you remove time from the mind?
By focusing your full
attention in the now.
So for instance, right now, can you just
get a sense of letting go of thinking
about your past and your future and just
being fully here in this present moment?
Bringing your full attention to the
sounds, the sights, the feelings,
the sensations of this this moment.
And noticing the effect
that that has on the mind.
So it's really only in those
moments, when we let go of past
and future, that we experienced the
fullness and the richness of now.
And the more time we spend in the
now, the more we understand it's
timeless and ever present nature.
And the more we understand that
our feelings of inner peace and
wholeness are deeply dependent
on our ability to be present.
So my invitation to you today is simple.
As much as possible, try to remove
time from the mind and return to
the present moment again and again.
So thank you for your practice
and your presence here with us.
And now let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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