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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?
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Mindfulness 101: A Beginner's Guide
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This meditation will guide you through a process of visualizing high performance as a way to build the mental habits of success.
Hello and welcome to today's
meditation on visualizing success.
As the saying goes, if you can see it in
your mind, you will hold it in your hand.
Success achieved out there in
the world, starts with belief
and clarity within your own self.
One way to arrive at this clarity is
through the process of visualization.
Visualization is a powerful tool used by
many successful people across the globe.
Elite athletes, for example, not only
focus on their physical training,
but also their mental training.
They train to see themselves winning
the race, scoring the goal, or making
the run in their mind over and over and
over again before doing it in real life.
Many successful business people say
that at some point in their lives, they
could clearly see themselves creating
a business in their space or playing
a significant role in their field.
Visualization allows you to mentally and
emotionally prepare for a desired outcome.
So let's begin this reflective practice.
In coming to this practice, I'd invite
you to first become aware of your posture.
Perhaps establishing the way you're
sitting or standing, or even lying
down in a way that embodies a
quality of alertness, awakeness.
But at the same time, is
relaxed, comfortable, at ease.
Becoming aware of your body in this way.
And also becoming aware of your breath.
The in-breaths and the out-breaths.
Inhalations and the exhalations.
This full cycle of breathing.
Connecting with the breath in this
moment as a way to ground yourself
and become fully present and focused
as we begin this visualization.
Visualization tends to be
easier with your eyes closed.
So allowing the eyes to gently
close or simply softening the visual
field, if that's more comfortable.
Perhaps gazing downward
and softening your focus.
And now I want to invite you to
consider and to visualize the following.
If everything in my life or work,
starting today, meets or exceeds my most
optimistic expectations, what will my
life or work look like a year from now?
If everything in my life or work,
starting today, meets or exceeds my most
optimistic expectations, what will my
life or work look like a year from now?
If you like, you can also extend
that to two years or three or
five, whatever works best for you.
But the reflection is, if everything
in my life for work, starting today,
meets or exceeds my most optimistic
expectations, what will my life
or work look like a year from now?
Or two or three or five?
Or whatever amount of time suits you.
But for now, let's go with a year.
See yourself a year from now, or
however long you believe you'll need.
See yourself being successful in all those
domains which you consider important.
Now zoom in closer.
Seeing with vividness.
Where are you?
What are you doing?
Who is with you?
What have you accomplished or achieved?
It's important to visualize
these wonderful outcomes as
if they've already happened.
Our hearts and minds will
often live the future.
We are expecting according to
neuroscientists, Regina poly, as
our minds and bodies set in motion,
quote, the perceptions, behaviors,
emotions, physiological responses,
and interpersonal ways of relating
that best fit with what is predict.
So predict for yourself success if your
life or work, starting today, meets or
exceeds your most optimistic expectations.
So with that in mind, let's reflect again.
If everything in my life or work,
starting today, meets or exceeds my most
optimistic expectations, what will my
life or work be like a year from now?
Or however long you think you
will need to be successful.
And now visualizing that outcome
as if it's already happened.
How does it feel to be
living this successful life?
Notice how you feel in
your body as you do this.
Deepen into your experience
as you visualize this.
Feeling, the energy of this successful
outcome flow through you in this moment.
Expand now this image of
success in your mind's eye.
Expand it further.
Notice as well now, the nature and
quality of your relationships with others.
How does it feel to be connected
with others in this state of success?
Next, expanding the image
further in your mind's eye.
What's your relationship
with your environment?
Take note of your surroundings.
What's it like to be in this place,
in this space in which your life
and work has met or exceeded your
most optimistic expectations?
And one last time expanding the image
in your mind's eye one step further.
What's your relationship to the world?
If your life or work, starting today,
meets or exceeds your most optimistic
expectations, how are you in the world?
And what's your relationship
to the world in which you're
inhabiting in this state of success?
And now as you come back to yourself, as
you are in this moment, in this time and
place, I'd invite you to take a moment to
signal gratitude for the success you've
already envisioned in your mind's eye.
Offering gratitude for the success
that you envision for yourself.
Holding all of these possibilities
in your mind and heart, let's
now begin to end this practice.
I'd invite you to take now three
slightly deeper breaths at your own pace.
Connecting with the breath.
Connecting with the
felt sense of your body.
And finally connecting
with the possibilities that
you have just envisioned.
That's our meditation
on visualizing success.
Thank you for your attention
and thank you for your practice.
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