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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, welcome back to
your Daily Mindfulness.
In today's session, we're going
to talk about inner peace.
Now these days as practices of meditation
and mindfulness have come up as things
that are important for our health and
wellbeing and our productivity, and
just being a full human in the world.
And it's widely understood
that that's the case.
It can easily become,
you know, another to do.
And inner peace can become another to do.
Something that we're, we're
chasing, we're trying to get to.
But it's really important to
remember that inner peace is
not something you can chase.
It's only something that you
can get when you stop running.
Inner peace is not
something you can chase.
It's only something you can get when
you stop running, because it can't
come from trying to get somewhere else.
It comes from trying to get more here,
relaxing into this moment, settling into
yourself and making space for the many
dimensions that come with being human.
The idea of chasing inner peace or
trying to get to inner peace is in
some way, a resistance or denial
to what is actually true right now.
And the only way we come to a peace
within ourselves is to meet what
is true and learn to relax into it.
It's not some organization of the
internal variables or the external
variables of life that when all of
that comes together, then I could
finally be peaceful with my life.
It doesn't work like that.
There's always going to be thoughts.
Some of them are going to be
difficult and complicated.
There's always going to be emotions.
A lot of them are going to be painful.
There's always going to be sensations.
Some might be pleasurable,
many might be painful.
And that's true with the external world.
And so if our idea of inner peace
is this subtle sense of a future
moment where then I'll be able to
be at ease with the way things are.
We're just going to keep running.
We're just going to end up in
some future moment with a mind
that is still looking for a future
moment, resisting what is here.
And so the journey toward inner peace
has to be a journey toward getting more
in this moment, relaxing more into this
moment, meeting the truth of whatever is
arising right now and softening into it.
And the more we do that, the more we
develop a coziness within ourselves, the
more our mind quite literally expands
in presence to hold more dimensions of
who we are and has the space to do so
without collapsing or being overwhelmed.
So, on your journey of cultivating
inner peace as the nice to-do, notice
if there is a striving forward in
the future and just see if you can
reorient yourself to the recognition
that it has to happen right now.
It's right here.
It's right now.
And each moment we do that, we're making
progress toward this thing that we're
not even trying to make progress for,
but in a paradoxical way, we still are.
So hope this helps.
Hope this gives you
something to think about.
Thank you for your practice and let's
settle in for today's meditation.
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