Day 1: Do We Need To Empty Our Mind During Meditation?

Welcome to the Mindfulness Meditation Challenge, designed to help you build a meditation habit and seamlessly integrate mindfulness into your daily life. The whole challenge is available in the form of playlist at the bottom of my profile.

If you’ve ever thought that meditation is about silencing or emptying your mind, or if you feel like you're "bad" at it because your mind is too noisy, don’t skip this track! Many beginners believe that successful meditation means having a perfectly quiet mind, suppressing negative thoughts, or staying in a state of mental stillness. But is that really the goal? Let’s dive in and explore what meditation is really about when it comes to your thoughts.

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Reviews

Hi Anisha,
Simply amazing.
I absolutely loved what you said and being sincere student of your courses, I was taken back to your below talk from courses on mastering and transforming automatic thoughts :
Don't think about white elephant.
That short talk was probably just a glimpse and I am thankful to universe ( time and space) as neither you nor me might have thought that you would find time later to share your mindfulness journey with us all in form of this short talks.
I am sure that I can also use your courses to know source of this thought:
Mindfullness is about emptying my mind.
May be my parents told me, may be I assumed seeing a monk at top of hill in isolated place in orange dress.
Whatever the source was, I am glad to be in safe hands to see the myth broken.
With Metta,
Arpit.