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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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Hi, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today I'm going to talk about
the possibility of carrying peace
with us through challenging times.
So we may hold the belief that
life should be smooth and that
we should always be happy.
But this is really just not
the nature of human life, as
you may have noticed, right?
Human life is beautiful sometimes.
Absolutely.
But human life is also messy,
challenging, and difficult sometimes too.
And the idea that it's not meant to be
is probably one of our greatest forms of
suffering and discontent in this life.
You know, we often have this sense that
something's gone terribly wrong when
things don't go the way that we want
them to, or we experience difficulty.
You know, in those times we often despair,
resist and rail against what's happening.
But here's the thing.
For all life forms, life is challenging.
Now you might be thinking, 'Well,
thanks for the inspirational talk
Melli.' But look, here's my point.
Challenges, yeah, they might not always
make us happy, but they do give us an
opportunity to grow, evolve and awaken.
Challenges not only kind of shake
us up and disrupt kind of our lives,
our equilibrium, but they also
wake us up and they open us up to
entire new ways of being and living.
This song of life is composed
with high notes and low notes.
And the truth is, is that to live a full
human life really means to experience
the full range of human experience and
emotions, the full symphony, if you will.
In knowing and accepting this simple
truth, we can discover a greater sense of
peace and acceptance in challenging times.
It's a little bit of a paradox, but when
we accept this truth, there's a deeper
sense of inner peace and contentment
that arises within us in those times.
And it's a form of peace that exists
beyond or beneath that emotion of
happiness that we're often chasing.
This background peace can be
there in the good times and the
bad, the high times and the low.
And it comes from having a state of
mind that's not resisting anything
and so is it ease with whatever
arises, both within and without.
So in times of challenge, instead
of resisting what's happening or
feeling that something went wrong
instead, just try waging peace with
it, courageously participating in it.
And the more you're able to do
that, the more you're able to find
that sense of inner contentment and
ease that you can carry with you no
matter what life throws your way.
So that's the invitation for today.
And as always, thank you for your
practice and your presence here with us.
And so now let's just settle
in for today's meditation.
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