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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
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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.
Living The Dream
In this meditation, we practice seeing and experiencing the goodness that is available to us right now, rather than incessantly chasing some future moment.
Duration
Your default time is based on your progress and is changed automatically as you practice.
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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