Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. This is our weekend practice series

where we release a new meditation or mindfulness exercise every Saturday. Now sometimes I am am your guide, and other times I pepper in

master teachers from the commune library, including Jack Cornfield, Sharon Salzberg, David G., and

Michael Beckwith, among others. Of course, you can access the entire treasure trove of

commune teachers and thousands of accompanying

lessons by subscribing to our course platform at one commune.com.

Today, your guide is Light Watkins.

Yes, his name is Light, an appropriate name for his vocation.

Now, Light is a best-selling author,

an accomplished meditation teacher, and founder of the Shine Movement, a 108-day movement challenge

to create a functionally strong body. Now, as humans, we're prone to overreact to negative circumstances.

Now, this meditation, responding versus reacting, is intended to guide you toward cultivating

the space between stimulus and your response to it and to focus on matters within your control and accept the things that are beyond

it. And to experience more of Light Watkins and take his 21-day meditation challenge on

redefining bliss, or visit Onecommun.com slash light for a free seven-day pass to his course.

I'll find a quiet place and a comfortable seat.

Pause this recording for a moment if you need to get settled.

And now I give you Light Watkins.

Thank you. Light Watkins. Over many, many years, we've been conditioned to see life as anything but bliss.

Hey, it's Jeff, and I'm aiming to take better care of my skin, which we should all be doing.

After all, it's our largest organ.

So for 10 minutes every day, I wear a face mask.

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