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~I invite you to listen to the audio version shared above, where a guided meditation is provided that follows what is shared below in the text.
Our past experiences play a role in what we imagine will happen in future outcomes.
Let’s take clothing as our example. If your experience when wearing a sweater has always been one that causes you to itch and thus feel uncomfortable, if you haven’t challenged this self-created truth that all sweaters, because they are sweaters, will cause you to itch, then when you see a sweater, you assume it will itch. However, as we know, the construction – the type of material and how it is made will determine how you respond to it.
I can remember for years as a young woman thinking that all sweaters would itch, and so I no more would purchase sweaters even if it made sense to do so for the time of year. Until . . . I wore for the first time a sweater made with high-quality cashmere. Yes, I do have sensitive skin, but my skin did not once itch while wearing this sweater. It felt as smooth as silk. I wanted to wear it to bed and never take it off. It was absolutely a dream I never thought possible. And it would have never been experienced if I hadn’t planted the seeds of possibility that all sweaters may not itch. I planted the seeds of the possibility I imagined and hoped for! would be possible.
What seeds are you planting about the new people you meet, the new situations you enter, the world’s tomorrow? While what we sow today will not sprout instantly, if we keep watering it, if we keep sowing the same seeds – of kindness, of compassion rather than distrust and cynicism – eventually we will find what we’ve been planting. It may sprout as something we hadn’t imagined or in a way that never crossed our mind, but the seeds you sow and wish to witness begin with the mind. What is your intention? How do you want to engage with the world? What do you hope to engage with in the world?
Over time, after intentionally sowing the seeds of the emotions that heal us, that calm us, this becomes a default, just as negativity may have become a default as a defense mechanism as a result of being hurt. Meditation gives us the safe place to practice cultivating a mindset that is nourishing, and in time, it will become where our mind rests and thus how it engages with the world outside of our meditation practice.
Let’s begin . . .
~To conclude each meditation session, I encourage you to recite a mantra of your choosing and design. In the Contentment Masterclass, I share my example, which you are welcome to use, tweak, or look to as a template to design your own. Also provided to enrollees of the course is a free trial of the guided meditation app I use.
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No. 23 — Acceptance is Where We Begin
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~Learn more about TSLL’s Contentment Masterclass: Discover the benefits of Meditation, which is included in the detailed syllabus shared here, watch the trailer, and read student reviews.
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