Hey everyone, my name is Rosie and I'm one of the new hosts of Radio Headspace.

I'm an author and a yoga meditation teacher and my new episodes are debuting February of next year.

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Beginners mind

Realizing that every moment in our lives is completely brand new. Like really embracing that concept.

Every single moment in your life is completely brand new.

This is such a thoroughly exciting concept. So this moment is completely brand new and this moment and this moment.

So no matter how many times you've done a certain activity, bend to a particular place or seen something, approaching it in the present moment as if you've never done it before.

But oftentimes we do the complete opposite. We base our present moment experiences on how things happened in the past.

And essentially what we're doing is setting ourselves up for expectations and usually with expectations comes disappointment and judgment which can lead to increased levels of stress.

This is actually what happened to me when I first started meditating. I would base each meditation session on how previous sessions went.

So let's say my Monday morning meditation was quote unquote great meaning I was able to maintain my posture. I was able to focus on my breath and my mind didn't get distracted as much.

For my evening meditation, I wasn't able to let go of my morning sessions experience. And I started my evening session with the expectations of it going as quote unquote well as my morning session.

But what often happened is that my mind would be racing during my evening meditation going over all of my day's experiences.

But I would then judge myself for not having as quote unquote good meditation session as I did in the morning.

And so that was my pattern when I first started meditating. I eventually shifted into the space of beginner's mind approaching each meditation as if I had never experienced that meditation before because essentially I had it.

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