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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, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness.
Today, I'm going to talk about
what lies beneath boredom.
So when we take up regular meditation
practice, it's likely that at some stage
along the way that we'll experience
a little bit of boredom arising.
And, you know, when it does, the
important thing is not to see
boredom as a problem or something
bad that you need to get rid of.
Instead, that the point is to learn
to relate to it in a skillful way.
In fact, what we might actually
find is there is a lot that we can
discover through this process that can
help us live a more fulfilling life.
Because, you know, if you think
about how most of us are living daily
life these days, we are constantly
bombarded with mental stimuli.
Really with hardly any space
left to stop and simply be.
We wake up in the morning,
maybe we start scrolling.
We cram in as much as
possible into our to-do list.
And, you know, we fill
our social calendars.
So what happens is we get really
used to living in a state of almost
hyperstimulation, so that any gaps of
stillness, silence, or slowness, where
there's nothing left to do suddenly
brings up uncomfortable feelings.
So if we find ourselves sitting
at home alone, all the to-dos
are ticked off, we often scramble
for the phone or the laptop.
If we have to wait a few
moments in line at the store,
we often start to feel awkward.
So instead of just standing
there waiting, we grab our phones
and we start surfing the web.
When we're so conditioned to always
being so busy and distracted, it's
really easy to see why we can become
bored really easily in our meditation.
You know, without all of
that constant stimuli.
And when it arises, this feeling of
boredom, you might think, you know,
what's the point of this meditation,
I could easily find something more
interesting or productive to be doing.
But if we do that every single time, if
we go and get more stimulation, every
single time we feel uncomfortable,
we're kind of perpetually caught in this
knee-jerk response to any uncomfortable
feeling where we just make ourselves
more and more busy and distracted.
Now over time, this can become a bit
of a habit and we can end up lost
in a haze of doing and automaticity
and not really fully present or
truly fulfilled in our lives.
So the opportunity here is a big one.
It's to learn to stay with boredom
instead of running from it.
And in doing that, we train
our minds to gently face the
discomfort and let it be as it is.
We're training ourselves to stay present,
calm and grounded when discomfort arises
instead of automatically reacting to it.
So the next time you experienced boredom,
instead of running away from it, see
if you can just gently allow yourself
to feel it and be present with it.
Get curious about boredom.
See what it's actually made up of.
Is it a feeling in the body?
Is it a thought?
Maybe both?
Maybe through this exploration,
you'll find that it's not so
intolerable to feel after all.
And when we train ourselves to do
this in meditation, the benefits
really translate into daily life.
We become less reactive and distracted,
more clear headed, calm, and
genuinely at ease within our own skin.
As always, thank you for your practice
and for being here in this community.
Let's settle in now
for today's meditation.
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