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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
work with a unique way to reframe
the experience of fear and anxiety.
So there's something interesting
about fear and anxiety, which is that
it's nearly the same physiological
experience as excitement and enthusiasm.
So let's paint a picture
because that could be a little
confusing of how that's possible.
Imagine two people on a rollercoaster,
they're sitting next to each other.
One person is gripping the bar like this.
They're sweating, uh, sweat
dripping down their face.
Their heart, heart is racing.
Um, their teeth are clenched like this.
And the other person, same thing.
Hands gripping, sweat going
down their face, heart beatin
fast, breathing a bit shallow.
One person is terrified and
the other person is excited.
And you could kind of imagine how
that would be possible, right?
How both of those experiences, both
of those physiological experiences are
familiar as fear and anxiety, and also
familiar as excitement and enthusiasm.
The main difference between those
two people is not the physiological
experience, but it's the meaning that
they're applying to the experience.
One person is going, I'm terrified.
This is going to be awful.
I hope I make it out alive.
And the other person is going,
this is going to be awesome.
I can't wait.
I want to do it again.
Different meaning, different relationship
to the physiological experience
and different experience entirely.
Now, there are a lot of ways
to work with fear and anxiety.
We talk about those ways on the app.
Simple things like redirecting the
attention back to the breath, noticing
when the anxious thoughts come up
and not taking them as seriously.
And all of those are valuable, but this
is unique in the sense that instead of
turning away from that physiological
experience, the encouragement is to lean
into it, to say, yeah, this is here.
And instead, try to shift the
meaning that you're applying to it.
So if you feel that going on in your
body, your heart beating fast, the hands
gripping, and it's something like before
public talk that you have to give,
notice what's going on in your mind.
Are you thinking about all
the ways it can go wrong?
All the ways you're terrified,
imagining what the people are going
to think if it doesn't go well.
Well, what would it be like to switch that
up, and instead start thinking about it
going really well, how excited you are.
Using that physiological response as a
way to create meaning in your mind that
this is something I can't wait to do.
It's something that takes some
practice, but it can be a powerful
reframing of an experience that
we typically associate with fear,
anxiety, or just overall negativity.
So try this out.
We'll talk a little bit more
about it than the meditation.
As always, thank you for your practice.
I'll talk to you soon and take care.
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