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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, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going
to talk about unwinding tension.
To unwind your deepest tension, in my
opinion, requires the deepest stillness.
And I'm not talking about stillness of
body, although that can certainly help.
I'm talking about stillness of being,
something deep within you that is
relating to your internal experience.
Any sense of trying to fix your tension
tends to just be another form of tension.
It's an aggression against the
part of you that lives in defense.
But more than anything, that part that's
scared, that's fearful, that's anxious,
that seems like it's creating extra
tension for you, that part needs space.
It needs time.
It needs patience.
It needs curiosity.
It needs love.
It needs grace.
And to offer that requires stillness,
requires letting go, requires just
being with it, not doing anything.
Letting yourself unwind.
And a lot of times when we go about
trying to relax or unwind some of that
deep tension that's there, we go about
it in the same way that caused that
tension to come in the first place.
We're forcing so many things in life.
We're crossing all these
things off our to-do list.
We're trying to get to the next thing.
All of which can be well and
good for periods of time.
But if that is our only
mode, we easily get wound up.
And then we come to our
meditation and we go, all right,
time to unwind this tension.
Relax, relax, relax.
And all that is, is just
another form of tension.
So my invitation to you in your
meditation practice and in your day, as
you're working to unwind some of that
deep seated tension, that could be on
a psychological level, an emotional
level, or even on a spirit level, a
soul level, we could say, give it space.
Don't try to fix it.
Don't try to force anything.
Just let yourself be.
The unwinding happens by showing up
with space, curiosity, grace, and love.
Hope that gives you something to think
about as you continue this process of
unwinding some of the deep tension that
inevitably gets accumulated through life.
Thank you for your practice and let's
settle in for today's meditation.
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