Segregate Your Life - Mindfulness Exercise

Life and certain situations can become overwhelming causing anxiety, loss of sleep, stress and losing peace of mind. This mindfulness practice of segregating life situations and witnessing them objectively can help in clearing the mind, enhancing focus, and reducing anxiousness.
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Music - Amazonian Dawn by Nature's Eye

Transcript

Hello everyone. I welcome you to day 2 of 21 meditations and today we are going to practice a meditation called as segregate your life. Yeah segregate your life. Check your positions either you could be sitting on a chair you could be sitting on a yoga mat whatever feels comfortable for you please go ahead with that. Anytime you're doing any kind of meditation always remember don't be in a position which is which is uncomfortable like your back is aching your legs are aching because you will not be able to focus on what exactly you need to do right and yes not take a position like for example I just lean on a chair and I'm just in a sleeping mode you will not be able to get the best out of a meditation. So yeah choose your positions. Breathe in and breathe out. Breathe in and breathe out a few more times and as you do that please gently close your eyes. Breathe in and breathe out a few more times to the best of your capacity. Relax the shoulders relax spine relax your hands relax your feet let your thoughts be don't try to control them it's their job to keep coming focus on your breathing in and breathing out I would like you to see a life into different segregations and that's what we're going to do today I want you to take a look at your life in totality for a moment like you were doing yesterday in a day one of meditation and once we see a life in totality today we are going to work on segregation of our life about what's working and what's not working let's take a focus to start with on three areas of life which are not working for you right now one by one I want you to see the area the situation which is not working the people involved and what exactly is that situation one by one see three most important situations of the life which are not working and now for each of these three situation I want you to ask yourself what am I feeling regarding non working of these situations or when these situations are not going according to how I want them to go. Feel what you're feeling one by one for all three situations keep breathing in and keep breathing out and now just for a moment I want you to keep these emotions aside from these situations and see these situations as a third person and ask yourself what are we currently doing to take care of these situations so for example if someone is going through an issue in regards to their career where somebody is not finding a job and that person is tired and frustrated or feeling exhausted of keep applying for jobs for last say four months and what they're doing in this situation is applying for jobs but somewhere that exhaustion and that tiredness is whenever you're applying for a job even when you're doing it you're doing it with the fact that I'm not going to get it and currently for the last 15 days that person is not even applying for a job because of how they're feeling right so what you're doing in this situation right now not really nothing just waiting for the application to come back after they've applied for a job so situation is that the person is not getting a job what they're doing in this current situation is feeling exhausted and tired of keep applying but what they need to do in this situation let's try and keep the rejection aside and the tiredness aside and keep applying so for example the focus is to apply for 40 to 50 jobs every day that's the need you keep applying and you keep applying you keep applying you keep applying so what is the situation in your life what are you doing about the situation in your life right now and what do you need to do about that situation right now I want you to do this exercise for three situations which are not working in your life be honest with yourself right now it could also be possible that you're doing everything which is needed in this point of time and have a beautiful month which I follow if you feel in a certain situation which is not working for you and you're doing everything which is possible right now and then start making peace with it start making peace with the fact that you're doing everything which is possible right now but might be the time is not right but that doesn't mean you stopped running you keep doing what you need to do but yet have that faith easy said the done right I know it's okay sometimes to feel that tiredness and frustration feel it feel it really feel it scream it out cry it out and then get back to doing what you again need to do breathing and breathe out breathing and breathe out again and focus now on what's working in your life what are the three most beautiful things which are working in your life right now your work the money you might be earning your relationships your family the place where you stay your social circle your community around you your weather what you're liking about the work you do could be many things right so what are the three situations which are working for you wonderfully in your life visualize and see them right in front of you you feel what you feel when they're working for you checking breathing and without you and bring them without a few more times and slowly start preparing yourself to come back to the place where you're sitting right now to your surroundings to your body to your feet your hands your spine your shoulders your breath and once you feel complete gently open your eyes we're gonna describe a life in one line there are different areas some work some are not working we have our own personal definitions about what do you mean by working so the list which you created with yourself today about what's not working in your life according to you on a daily basis I want you to ask yourself what do you need to do in this situation which I'm not doing right now do you need to make peace with some situation in your life and what does working in your life right now wonderfully I want you to go through these things for the whole day today I wish you a day where you are able to segregate different situation and the areas of your life and acknowledge what are you feeling we got that because at any point of time during the day we feel different emotions we can sound happy sometimes I feel like crying feel like laughing we feel like screaming it out we feel a little upset feel joyful feel relaxed feel a little tired segregate different areas of your life and enjoy different feelings and take care of yourself as I will see you tomorrow for our next meditation see you