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Radio Headspace

Life Without Practice

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Acknowledge the progress you've made.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there, it's Dora. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday. So a few years ago, I was invited

0:22.8

to speak and share my story on a panel discussion about mental health and self-care. And I remember

0:28.8

afterwards, one of the audience members came up to me and thanked me for telling my story.

0:34.1

Now this episode would be pretty long if I shared the same story here, but essentially I've had

0:40.0

my fair share of struggles. This audience member was deeply grateful that I was able to share the

0:45.4

difficulties I had faced. She asked, how do you carry this so well? And that conversation made me

0:52.1

think about how far I've come with my practice and how important it is to acknowledge the progress

0:57.8

we've made. It's interesting because when we've been meditating for a long time or have committed

1:06.5

to living life in a certain way, we forget what our life was like before that. If you listen to

1:11.7

this show before, you know that meditation and mindfulness are the things to do. They have great

1:17.9

benefits for our minds and bodies and help us connect deeply to others and contribute to the world

1:24.1

around us. So we do it religiously until it becomes second nature. However, we can have such tunnel

1:31.2

vision of wanting to be better, to change, to evolve, whatever it is that we can lose sight of

1:37.2

where we started. We can feel like we haven't made enough progress. And this may be true for parts

1:43.4

of your life outside of meditation. Maybe you're climbing a corporate ladder or training for a marathon

1:50.0

or building a better relationship with your partner. In this pursuit of wanting more for ourselves,

1:56.3

it's rare that we take time to stop, pause, and reflect on just how far we've come,

2:02.0

which was an eye-opening moment for me the other day at the dentist.

2:08.4

So something I've been struggling with as a result of my past anxiety and stress is a clenched

2:13.4

jaw. Temporal, mandibular joint dysfunction to be exact. There was a point in my life where I was

2:19.8

so stressed that I would grind and clench my jaw on my sleep to the point where I needed a

2:24.6

mouth guard. So the dentist didn't assessment of my jaw and gave me a few alternatives to try.

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