Day Six
DAY 6: Dr Elise Bialylew interviews Gregory Kramer
You’ll learn:
- The importance of tapping into "intention" and how to use this to transform your life.
- How mindfulness helps us develop greater clarity and improved decision making in life.
- What is the famous Noble Eightfold Path and how you can use this to cultivate greater fulfilment in your life.
teaching Insight Meditation since 1980. He developed the practice of Insight Dialogue and has been teaching it since 1995, offering retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He is the author of: Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom, Seeding the Heart: Practicing Lovingkindness with Children, Meditating Together, Speaking from Silence: the Practice of Insight Dialogue, and Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together with Wisdom Texts. His newest book is A Whole-Life Path: A Lay Buddhist’s Guide to Crafting a Dhamma-Infused Life. Gregory lives in Washington State, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Prefer to listen, rather than watch? Click the play button below.
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Your Meditation for today
Open MIND Open HEART Meditation By Lindsey Kelly
Kelly Lindsey is a meditation teacher and mind-body therapist living in Austin, Texas. Kelly’s meditative journey began more than twenty years ago and has included many different styles of practice and paths of study. Kelly has found a wonderful integration of deep practice and study realized in the context of everyday life. All of the spiritual teachings she has received have culminated in one primary lesson: how to live in the world with an open heart.
BONUS MEDITATION
Awareness Of The Body Meditation with Elise Bialylew
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WELCOME TO DAY SIX
Reducing suffering in our lives requires us to become more familiar with the way our mind works.
There are always going to be external stressors and events we can’t control that can bring suffering, but so often, our minds add suffering to our experiences.
If we don’t stop and investigate the stories we tell ourselves, we fall into the quicksand of negative thoughts, especially when faced with increased stress like the pandemic, or any other day-to-day life stresses.
Our stories can corrode and weaken our resilience, so an essential aspect of building our resilience is building our inner capacity to be aware of our thoughts and be more skeptical of them rather than taking them at face value.
Mindfulness practice is a crucial inner tool for building greater resilience so that we can meet the stressors of life with more skillful responses.
Remember, you don’t have to accept all thoughts as “truth”.
Today, spend some time checking in with the “fake news” of your mind.
I've found it so liberating to discover that I don't have to believe all of the thoughts that come into my mind.
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