Welcome to meditation number eight for mindful growth.
This is a meditation on developing resilience.
This meditation will help you to relate to your problems and stressors differently.
Ultimately,
Being able to transform them into fuel for your personal growth.
First,
Generate an intention that this meditation will help you to develop resilience in your daily life.
To get started,
Make sure you have a comfortable meditation posture.
Straight back,
Eyes gently closed,
Hands resting in your lap.
Beginning by bringing our attention to the breath.
Simply feeling it as it enters and leaves our body.
Using our breath to help our mind settle.
As the mind is pulled away,
Simply notice and bring our mind back to the breath as soon as we can.
As we rest in this breath awareness,
We are able to focus on our body.
As we rest in this breath awareness,
We can also feel that our center of awareness is moving down from our head into the center of our chest at our heart.
This can help us to reduce the pull of distracting thoughts.
Connect us into our heart and our body.
Feeling now that we are breathing from the heart area.
Now,
Beginning our meditation on resilience.
We start with analytical meditation.
Slowly contemplating in our own experience,
Sometimes in our life where we have encountered difficult or adverse conditions.
Unwanted circumstances.
Any type of challenge,
Big or small.
You might choose some familiar circumstances,
Big moments.
Or you might choose new examples that arise today.
Remembering some of these challenging or adverse conditions in our lives.
We can now contemplate how these conditions often caused us to grow as people.
Maybe we were forced to develop new perspectives.
Become more patient.
More compassionate.
Change our habits.
Again,
It can be anything,
Large or small,
Ways in which we grew or changed.
We can now contemplate how these conditions often caused us to grow as people.
Now we can turn our attention to the current challenges or adversities in our lives.
Again,
Large or small,
Difficult people,
Situations,
Relationships,
Problems with our health,
Anything.
What are we pressing up against right now in our lives?
What's pushing us?
Remembering our intention to embody the growth mindset.
We realize that these present challenges are just what we need as fuel for our ongoing personal evolution.
Just as our previous challenges and adversities helped us to grow into people we are now.
Contemplating in this way,
We realize that our current challenges and adversity are exactly what we need.
They are the fuel for our personal growth.
We realize this.
We develop an open,
Embracing,
Fearless feeling towards these challenges.
This is resilience.
Once we have this feeling of resilience in our body and mind,
We now cease our contemplation,
Move into placement meditation,
Holding this feeling of resilience,
Open,
Embracing of our challenges without fear.
And hold this feeling with a peaceful but concentrated mind.
Rather than hoping that we will get a aspirations to achieve about 9 million people,
If we find that the feeling of resilience has faded,
Or we're pulled away by distraction,
Simply return briefly to our contemplation,
Remembering that these challenges and adversities we face in our life are exactly what we need.
Continuing to hold this feeling of resilience now with a still and undistracted mind.
As well as the ability to Trying to hold this feeling of resilience for the final two minutes of our meditation.
Try to hold this feeling of resilience for the final two minutes of our meditation.
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Now you can gradually relax your attention.
Slowly arise from your meditation.
And that concludes meditation number eight for mindful growth.
Thank you.
