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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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In this session, we’ll learn how to lead our life from a place of inner truth and alignment, as well as how to parse our soul’s truth from the noise of our mind. Choose meditation duration:
Hi, welcome back to Day
Four of our Un-challenge.
In the last several days, we've
explored making more internal space
for our experience to arise and to pass
without immediately making it right or
wrong or having to fix or change it.
This becomes the foundation
for unwinding a lot of this
tension that we've accumulated.
And maybe you've already started
to experience the relaxation and
the ease that can come from that.
Today, I want to explore, how do
we be in relationship to these
experiences that we've made space
for when we need to make decisions?
Because the reality is, is that we
do still need to have preferences.
We need to decide what
to do in a situation.
And we can't just be allowing
everything to arise and then not
do anything in relationship to it.
So what is the mechanism that allows us
to make decisions from a place that is
aligned rather than out of alignment?
And this is going to be the foundation
for our exploration of intuitive guidance.
Now, if the idea of intuitive guidance
seems a little out there, think of it
more as learning to connect, to and
surrender to an inner knowing that feels
more in alignment with who you perceive
yourself to be on a deeper level, rather
than just playing out the mind's and the
ego's ideas about what you should do.
Because the reality is if we really pay
attention to what we're doing on a moment
to moment basis, most of that is happening
on automatic pilot and it's happening
from the noise of our mind telling us
what to do next or emotions that create,
that are reactions to what's arising
and it pushes us into another moment.
And if we really look at where that
is all coming from, most of it's
not really ours on a deep level.
You know, the thoughts are our
parents' thoughts or culture's
thoughts, or the media's thoughts.
And maybe even the responses
that we're feeling are based on
old experiences or past traumas.
And so there's a certain maturity
in decision-making that arises when
we begin to parse what is the mind's
conditioning from what we could say is the
soul's truth, or just a deeper knowing.
There's a quote by Robert Adams
that I really like where he
says, "There's something within
you that knows what to do.
Surrender your mind, your thoughts, your
ego to the current that knows the way.
It will take care of you.
It will take better care of
you than you can ever imagine."
I remember when I first heard that I was
like, "Ah, there's something about that
that feels really nice and promising.
But also, what the heck does it mean?
And how do I even begin to listen to that?
That can just seem like a nice
idea, but it's like, how do we
actually live in alignment with that?
That's been a big part of my personal
growth exploration over recent years.
And one of the things that I've seen
is that the mind's ideas tend to have
a qualitatively different experience
to them than our deeper knowing.
They tend to have a little
bit more contraction.
They tend to be a little noisier.
They have a particular buzz to them.
They can create exhilaration,
excitement, but they also have some
anxiety to them, a little bit of fear.
And so when we're operating
from the mind's ideas, it's a
bit more of a roller coaster.
When we connect to this inner knowing
that Robert Adams is pointing to,
the current that knows the way, it
seems to be that the experience of
that is that it's actually quieter.
There's an ease there.
It's not trying to
convince you of anything.
It has the resonance of, "this
is what's happening next,
would you like to come along?"
And what I found is that we have a
lot of ways to defend against that.
The mind and the ego comes in and
says, like, "We can't do that.
Like, what would be the consequences
of actually following that?
I'm scared of that."
And if we really look at it, most of
that is just based on our old ideas
and all the ways that mind and ego self
we're trying to control the situation
and keep us safe and protected.
However, we've also seen how that can
actually cause a lot of stress for us.
And especially when it comes to making
big decisions, we can get caught in
these cycles of pro conning everything
out on an Excel spreadsheet and
really wrestling with it and asking
all of our friends, what should I do?
What if there was actually a
simpler way to connect to what
was right for you in this moment?
That's what we're going to
explore in today's meditation.
We're going to explore how to connect
to that place within you that's
actually more still, more quiet and is
just arising as this is what's next.
We could say it's the
soul's communication.
We could say it's the deeper you that
is communicating, your higher self.
But when you taste it, when you
actually start to touch into it,
there is a feeling of, oh yeah.
There is a voice that is uniquely mine.
And when I align with it, something
in me feels more whole and fulfilled.
So I'm excited to dive
into that with you today.
You're doing great so far.
We're four days into this challenge.
Thanks for continuing on the journey.
We're a little over halfway
there, so let's keep going.
And for now, let's settle
into today's meditation.
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