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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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In this meditation, we'll explore a different way to be in relationship to the meditation process, one that is more accepting, easy, and wise.
Let's start by finding
a comfortable posture.
This could be sitting down,
lying down or standing.
And if it feels okay for you
today, you can close your eyes.
We'll take one deep breath together.
Breathing in through the nose.
And slowly out through the mouth.
Inviting the jaw to relax.
Let the shoulders be at ease.
And the belly and hands can soften.
And as the body relaxes, the
mind can start to relax as well.
We let the breath settle
back into its normal rhythm.
The theme of this meditation will be
letting awareness do the meditating.
Let awareness do the meditating.
A lot of times when we are forcing
or pushing or striving in meditation,
it's because we're caught in
an egoic kind of practicing.
I'm meditating.
I'm trying to be peaceful.
I'm trying to overcome stress.
I, I, I, me, me, me.
In this practice, we have the opportunity
to step out of that self-orientation and
just into awareness doing the practice.
So let's just try it.
Settle back, feel the
body relaxing more deeply.
And instead of feeling like you need
to focus on the breath, just feel like
awareness is focusing on the breath.
Awareness is meditating.
Not you.
Not your brain.
Awareness.
Awareness knows when
the body is breathing.
It knows when the mind has wandered off.
And it knows to bring the
attention back to the breath.
Every time you feel yourself
striving, just relax into it and
watch awareness do the practice.
As if you were observing it happen
as an outsider, an impartial witness.
Just letting experience happen and
let awareness do the meditation.
Feeling the breath, watching the
mind wander, bringing it back.
Let's take one deep breath
together before we close.
In through the nose.
And out through the mouth.
When you're ready, you can
invite your eyes to open again.
So great job.
This is a nice way to reframe
your meditation practice.
And when you feel like you're caught
in an experience in your day to day,
see if you can just step back and let
awareness be aware of what's happening
rather than feeling like you need to
be in it, controlling it or fixing it.
It might be a useful
perspective just to play with.
Thank you for your practice.
And until we talk again, take care.
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