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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, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going
to talk about integration.
Now, this is a word you may have heard
a lot of in the personal development
space, in the psychology space,
and even here on Mindfulness.com.
I tend to use it a lot, especially
when discussing moving toward
the experience of, of wholeness
and contentment and well-being.
But what does integration actually mean?
Well, for me, the way I define
integration, it's learning to see that
all parts of you play an important
role in fulfilling the complex and
multifaceted needs of being human.
That can feel like a mouthful.
So I'll say it again a little more slowly.
Integration is learning to see that all
parts of you, all parts of you, play an
important role in fulfilling the complex
and multifaceted needs of being human.
So if we look at that through the lens
of, of disintegration, recognizing
that we do have a lot of different
parts of us, parts of us that want to
protect a certain experience or version
of ourselves, parts of us that might
be fearful, parts of us that might be
sad, parts that might have joy, parts
that might want to aspire for growth.
Parts that want to, to feel safe.
And we look at that all as, as
part of the whole of who we are.
Well, disintegration is when those parts
stop communicating with each other.
They stop appreciating each other's
participation in the journey of wholeness.
A certain part might go, I don't like you.
You're uncomfortable.
Why are you here?
When you come out, people
don't seem to like you.
And so we cast that part of us
into the shadows of our awareness.
And this is how humans fracture,
parts of them splinter.
And we actually get disconnected from
ourselves, disintegrated in a way
that we can still get through life,
but there's not this deep sense of
embodiment and grounded-ness within us.
And maybe you've experienced
this for yourself.
And so integration is the recognition
that yeah, there might be some
parts that are uncomfortable.
There might be some parts of us
that we don't fully understand,
but we recognize that each part
has some positive intention, even
if we don't yet know what it is.
The part that we might be frustrated
by, that experiences fear a lot that
says, don't do this, don't do this.
That we just tend to go, why
are you, why are you so fearful?
What's wrong with you?
Like go sit down.
Right?
That is taking a relationship to that
part that doesn't really recognize,
or perhaps isn't creating a space
to understand why that part might
be there, what it might be saying.
When we can open ourselves up to
that part with some curiosity,
and instead of pushing it away,
say something like, Oh, okay.
So there's some fear right now.
What are you trying to tell me?
Well, then that part has
the opportunity to share.
It's like, well, last time we were
in this situation, we said this
and that person didn't like us.
Okay, cool.
So now we can at least have
a conversation with it.
And when that arises, then another part
can come in and say, yeah, I see you fear.
I, I recognize where you're coming from.
And you're right.
10 years ago that did happen, but
who we are now is different and this
is a different context and we can
hold the experience if it doesn't go
well,.We, we we're all in this together.
And so that conversation with the
different parts, all the different
facets of who you are, is how we move
toward the experience of wholeness.
It's my definition of, of integration and
many people's definition of integration.
So as you consider your journey
of growth, of mindfulness, look
at your own internal experience.
And sense for yourself is there a
disintegration or is there integration?
And it might be true that parts
of you feel more integrated and
other parts feel disintegrated.
And a mindfulness practice is
creating space for some of those
parts that we might tend to want to
push away, to actually be invited
into our awareness, for us to become
curious about them and to see that
they to have a positive intention.
And even though they might not be
necessary for this moment, they may
be necessary for a future moment.
And if we're constantly at battle
with them, we don't give ourselves
the chance to see the positive
role that that part might play.
So hope this gives you something to
think about in your mindfulness journey.
Thank you for your practice and let's
settle in for today's meditation.
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