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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 focus on how to deal with difficult thoughts and feelings, both in meditation and in life.
So now just really settling
into your meditation posture.
And when you're ready, allowing
your eyes to gently close.
And as a way of settling in and
arriving here a little more fully,
just inviting you now to take
three deep, slow, full breaths.
So breathing in, feeling the body
expand a little on the inhale.
And breathing out, and feeling all
the muscles of the lungs and chest
gently contracting and relaxing.
And taking two more
breaths in the same way.
And with each exhale, can you get a
sense of really allowing your body to
settle into gravity and your mind to
settle into this moment a little more?
Just letting everything else go now.
And at the end of this next
exhale, letting go of any
control of the breathing.
Just letting the breath settle into
its own natural rhythm and pace.
But continuing to be attentive to the
feeling of the breath moving in your body.
And as we settle into this meditation
a little more, just noticing whether
there's any unpleasant aspect of your
present moment experience that you
might be pushing away, trying to block
out, or kind of hardening against.
And there might be sensations
in the body, for instance, that
might be painful or irritating.
There might be unwanted
sounds or emotions.
And what's here for you.
So when we resist the unpleasant,
it's a little bit like going to
battle with our present moment.
Can you begin to soften or drop
the struggle against what is,
and instead include it all in a
warm, open and kindly awareness?
Just letting it be.
So as you continue to follow the
breath, just having that sense of
befriending, what is, and meeting this
moment with the fullness of who you are.
Really waging peace with the
present moment experience.
And if no, particularly unpleasant thing
calls for your attention, really just
settling into following the breath.
And now can you get a sense of
broadening out your awareness to
take in the totality of your present
moment and seeing if you can meet
it all with warmth, with kindliness
so the pleasant and the unpleasant?
Just resting back in your experience
and allowing the unpleasant parts
of your experience to arise and
pass away without resistance.
Allowing the pleasant aspects of
experience to arise and pass away
without clinging or chasing more.
Just having a sense of putting
the welcome mat out for whatever
arises moment by moment.
And now as we bring this meditation
to a close, just take a moment to
notice how you feel after taking
this time to cultivate kindness
and warmth towards your experience.
When you're ready, just beginning to
move the fingers and toes a little.
And gently blinking open the eyes.
And so perhaps now just making
an intention to take this
attitude of befriending what
is into the rest of your day.
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