Why Practice Mindfulness ?

Just a talk on why practice mindfulness, inviting you to be more aware of your emotions and how they travel in your body. Hopefully, this talk will be helping you want to get deeper into your mindfulness practice and question the way you spend your time and live your life.

Transcript

Find a place where you feel comfortable as if we were going to meditate but we're going to listen to that little talk. Maybe find your feet and your ground and your hands on your lap, Your spine tall. The way you can breathe and listen. Maybe your eyes gaze onto the computer screen or maybe not. Maybe your eyes are closed and if you're holding a child I really invite you to sense the warmth of that child on your lap. Sense every movement not as a distraction but as a connection. All right so yeah you have a little being with you. It could be the same if you have your pet or if you hear your bird tweaking around. Don't sense oh this is distraction but bring in oh this is life around me. And Lord life is so precious you know and this is how I start my talk just by saying to you this is what mindfulness just brought to me. It brought me to life in some different way realizing that each moment is precious because each moment passes and will be gone and will never come back. Right so over the years of practice I've gone back and forth with sitting silently being mindful outside of my life. Outside of my life on the yoga mat or outside of my life on the pillow and I realize now that it's really supporting me on a deep deep deep soul level to be able to be mindful. I can I can have pleasure when I eat. I can have more pleasure when I look at a landscape. I can actually slow down when I'm rushing past the streets and don't even see the people. It's bringing me to a new knowledge every day of where my emotions are taking me away from life as well. And so I love being present with my emotion more and more as I connect with the mindfulness and I hope you get to find that in you so I want to give you a little exercise for a second. Maybe close your eyes or pet your child a little closer and bring to your mind a moment this past week where you had a strong emotion. Whether it was a positive emotion like joy because we had fantastic election going on in America or whether it was a pretty deep stress and fear emotion because you had some test result or whatever is going on in your life that makes you very emotional and sense that for a second. Where is that in your body? Where is that memory lingering in your body? That moment where you realize Camila Harris was gonna be the first woman at the head of state of color on top of it from two different tribes African and Asian. How is that? Where is that in your body? And breathe there if you find where it is about two three times allowing yourself maybe to get a little longer and inhale that sensation of emotion in your body. Exhale it and you may have a smile on your lips starting to arise or some tear on your eyes starting to fall. Check that out. When in some way once you can connect back opening your eyes and connecting back with that group in some way mindfulness and the practice I've had for the past few years really brought me to better acknowledge this to better sense really fully the strong moment in my life and sometimes it's super pleasant because you can really enjoy it's like enjoying a fruit to its last bite like eating that peach and being like oh my goodness it's so sweet and it makes my mouth water more and more and having another bite and realizing it's still there and so sometimes we can notice that beauty of the emotion and sometimes it's like fear here that anger right there I don't want it and we may be link thrown off and we may decide oh I'm just gonna leave the room right now and I'm not gonna pay attention to that emotion because it's so strong and it creates even more emotion but if we are doing that and if we continue doing that we are not being present and we are not fully able to receive the teachings of life in some way because we number no no I don't want this it's so scary it's so scary and if we numb fear if we numb scary we cannot give what we are supposed to give when we are in those place right because you cannot give yourself what you need if you run away from fear and maybe mindfulness is here to help us really take that pose and be like well here's fear here is anger how does it feel like all right I know that now but what do I need what do I need really to deal with this right now and I cannot I can guess it's not running away what you need is maybe a hug what you need is maybe a call to your best friend what you need is maybe hugging your baby tighter or giving more love to your loved one on a daily basis being like I love you I love the time we spend together you know speaking the word being with the words on a daily basis and if your main issue is with anger like we have had a lot of anger here in America now it's joy but if your main issue is emotion is anger I just wanna name a phrase from Ruth King she's fantastic and phenomenal women and she say anger is igniting it is not informative okay so it ignates a fire those emotion ignites a fire but we cannot do anything with it if we don't pose and we don't pay attention and we don't transform right and in some way I'll stop with that mindfulness is our transformation mindfulness is a way we can transform strong emotion it's the way we can you turn as my teacher Tara say and we can reflect pose reflect notice what's underneath and act upon that act with that in mind and I bet you just like me you'll start acting a little less selfishly and a little more open-heartedly yeah so that's that that's the talk of today I hope you enjoy mindfulness and you enjoy each little bit each little try you don't need to sit for a long time you just need to come back and see it you just need to remember to come back try it again and again and again until one day you just realize that you're being mindful at every opportunity thank you

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Thank you Alexandra, c'était absolument parfait 🙏