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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 meditation, we practice seeing and experiencing the goodness that is available to us right now, rather than incessantly chasing some future moment.
Let's start by settling
into a comfortable posture.
This could be sitting down,
lying down or standing.
If it feels okay to do so,
you can close your eyes.
And we'll take a deep breath
together to settle in.
In through the nose.
And slowly out through the mouth.
Inviting the jaw to relax.
Letting the shoulders be at ease.
As well as the hand and the belly.
As your body settles in, you can let your
breath come back to its natural rhythm.
And see if you can feel yourself settling
in a little more deeply to this moment.
And in today's meditation, we're going
to practice appreciating what is.
There will always be a better external
experience that we could create and
it's important to have those visions
for ourself to change our circumstances.
But if we're not simultaneously training
ourselves to appreciate what we do
have, even if it's small, we'll just
recondition the sense of needing to get
something else, even when we get the
very thing that we thought we wanted.
So we'll keep today's
practice very simple.
It will be in awareness
of breath practice.
You can place one hand on your belly
to feel the breath more vividly.
And the breath is a great place to
practice appreciation because it is the
most fundamental reason that you're alive.
So every inhale and every exhale as
an opportunity to appreciate your life
right now, because it's quite literally
happening right here at the breath.
As you attune your attention to your
breathing, you're welcome to say anything
in your own mind, such as: I am grateful
for this breath or this breath is enough.
Or you can just hold a grateful
disposition as you feel this
breath moving through your body.
I'll give you the next minute in silence
to practice however it works best for you.
As we come to the closing of
our meditation, let's take
one more deep breath together.
In through the nose.
And slowly out through the mouth.
When you're ready, you can reorient
yourself back into this space.
Allow the eyes to open.
And take in your life as it's happening.
Great job.
Again, I want to reiterate that it's
great to have dreams and visions.
I have plenty of them and things that
I'm looking to create in my life.
But if all we're doing is obsessing
about getting somewhere else and not
simultaneously training our minds
to appreciate what we have, then
it's often the case that once we get
where we think we want to get, we're
still striving to get someplace else.
The bar just gets set higher and higher.
So we need both.
We need to dream and we need to
be able to appreciate what is
here, and you're doing that work.
Great job.
Thank you for your practice.
I'll talk to you soon and take care.
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