Hello, you're listening to Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host, Thomas Mekonki.

Thanks for listening today.

Just an invitation to our listeners, if you're enjoying the show, please don't be shy to share it with a friend, with a family member.

We want to offer this show, this podcast, as a support to your mindfulness practice

and also as a tool and a resource for others who

have been curious about mindfulness but haven't known how to get into the practice.

And not just for beginners either if you've been practicing mindfulness for many years,

like I have.

I hope you get a few different perspectives in the show and that it can benefit you as well.

So today I want to talk about a really important aspect of mindfulness that has taken me many years to really detect and notice that it was going on and to appreciate it

at deeper and deeper levels. And that is the role of healing in mindfulness practice. So let me tell

you a scenario I run into with a lot of students.

They're busy people and it's difficult to free up a few minutes a day to meditate.

They'll do it, they're willing, most days, but it's difficult.

It feels like a sacrifice.

We already do so much in life.

Ah, now we have to figure out how to cram one more thing into our day, which is a mindfulness practice.

So it's difficult to free up time for many of us, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour, whatever you have.

And what happens is we tend to bring an expectation to practice,

like, okay, if I'm going to do this, it better be good. It better be pleasant, better help me get relaxed and enjoy my day more. If not, I'm out of here. So we give our mindfulness practice an ultimatum. And this is where it can become

problematic and this is where the subtlety lies that I invite you to notice with me today and

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