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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
how to work with impatience.
Now, I'm just going to say up front
here that this has been something
that I have had to work on since
I was a very, very young infant.
I was so impatient when I was
young that my mother took me
to the local priest for help.
They got me to memorize this really funny
song about patience and take deep breaths.
But I think my driven and
determined nature still got
the better of me for many, many
years, much to my mother's dismay.
But as time has gone on, I have
come to see that the stress,
tension and inner turmoil that
impatience causes, especially in my
meditation practice, is not worth it.
And I've learned to let
it go, most of the time.
But what I've come to see is the
impatience arises within us not
because things are necessarily moving
too slowly, but because of a series
of thoughts arising in the mind.
Thoughts about how we want life to be.
We want life to be a certain way.
We want it to be different than it
is right in that present moment.
So we have this idea of how we think life
should be, and then we just fixate on it.
These thoughts then give rise
to emotions such as boredom,
frustration, irritation or even anger.
And the more we buy into those
thoughts, the greater and the stronger
our experience of impatience will be.
So during a meditation, you might
have a thought like, you might be
listening to a guided meditation and
thinking, Oh, for goodness sake, stop
talking, get on with the meditation.
Or you might think, Oh,
this is going on too long.
I've got all these important
things to do today.
Or you might just be looking
at your watch and thinking,
when is this going to be over?
You might start to be impatient
with yourself in not progressing in
meditation the way you want to or
expect to, or perhaps you get frustrated
because your mind won't settle.
Maybe you even have a sort of
broader impatience with the way
that your life is unfolding.
Whatever the impatience is,
it all starts with a thought.
A thought that has an underlying
theme, this moment should be
different than it is right now.
Once you see that clearly, then you
can simply make the choice to let
go of what you think life should be.
And instead, just relax into
the present moment as it is.
So we don't need to cultivate
more patience per se.
What we're doing here is actually
simply learning to let go of
impatience so we can live our
lives with more ease and happiness.
So the next time you feel impatience
arising, either in meditation or daily
life, perhaps in slow traffic, in the
checkout line or in a conversation,
don't see the impatience as an obstacle,
rather see it as a reminder to let
go of the storyline that things need
to be different and then simply be
present with the moment as it is.
As always, thank you for your practice
and your presence here with us.
And now let's settle in
for today's meditation.
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