Why We Practice Meditation

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

There are many reasons to practice meditation. Today, Eve breaks down the benefits of a consistent practice. Eve Lewis Prieto is Director of Teaching at Headspace, a certified Mindfulness & Meditation teacher and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor. At Headspace, Eve helps to introduce new meditation teachers to the platform and creates and oversees a wide array of meditation and mindfulness experiences that meet the diverse needs of our members. She is passionate about teaching the benefits of these time-honoured practices, with the aim of helping people take care of their mental health. Send any general questions to askeve@headspace.com, or you can connect and meditate with Eve via Instagram @meditatewitheve where she leads a weekly live meditation. Try the Headspace app free for 30 days here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday. It's Eve here with you. So you
0:21.7	might have been listening to the show for a while or this might be the first time you
0:26.1	are tuning in. Either way I hope today's topic is helpful and that is why we practice meditation.
0:34.3	We practice because life is sometimes pretty difficult. We can't always control what happens
0:42.4	but we do have the potential to transform how we relate to those things. We need awareness,
0:49.5	a deeper level of clarity and insight to understand our minds and we need compassion and kindness
0:57.2	to connect with ourselves and others. So to help bring this point to life I'm going to share an
1:06.5	analogy of a storm. So when we feel overwhelmed anxious or scared it can feel like we're in the
1:14.2	middle of a storm. Our thoughts and emotions can hit us from all directions and rain is
1:21.1	pelting down so hard it stings the eyes and there's leaves and debris everywhere. We're not always
1:29.1	going to be able to stop the storm or control its part but our practice, our meditation helps us to
1:36.4	move inside and out of the storm so that we can view it more clearly. We can see directly what
1:43.7	is happening and the impact it is having. We're not pretending that the storm has stopped. We can
1:50.4	still see the rain but we're not being hammered by it. Many of our struggles arise from how we relate
2:02.0	to the different states of mind we experience. So take anxiety as an example. First of all anxiety
2:10.2	is a very normal emotion to experience. It's this apprehension that something might go wrong or
2:16.4	won't go according to plan and that the outcome could be really bad. It's not bad to want things to
2:23.7	be okay. Our anxieties often come from a good place but a lot of the time we can't see that.
2:31.6	An anxious thought arises or a disconcertain feeling in the body might accompany it.
2:36.5	Maybe a tight throat, tense shoulders, a stomach that is doing some assaults and that almost gives
2:43.6	fuel to the thoughts. We can get stuck in this repetitive thought cycle.
2:51.7	So returning to wavy practice, meditation, practicing mindfulness, put some space between our thoughts,
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