Has life knocked you down? A huge every day benefit of a mindfulness practice is gaining the tools and techniques that will allow you to stop fighting against the waves of life that are knocking you down and learn to ride them with style and grace. In this video post I share how my POD has helped me and can help you to gain the ability to be resilient in the face of life’s tough times.
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Mindfulness practice of the day.
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Stress management, riding the waves.
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One of the biggest fallacies that
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I had to overcome was
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this notion that my
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daily practice, my meditation and my mindfulness
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training and all of this other stuff
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was going to somehow make all my problems
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go away. And that's just not
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the case. What my daily practice is
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done, it taught me how
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to ride the waves.
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You know, life...life has happening. It's going to come at us
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and there are so many things that are
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beyond our control.
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And you know, a lot of times what happens is...
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the analogy I like to use, you know is
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we're out there walking on the beach and we're not
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particularly paying attention. And then all of a sudden
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you know, big riptide comes and grabs us
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and takes us out to sea
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we're sitting their gasping for breath and
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trying to figure it out. You know then we
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somehow fight, we're struggling and maybe
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find our ways back in only to stand up
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and BOOM get hit with the big wave
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and the whole process starts over.
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And that's life. You know,
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life is going to throw thing at us.
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And it's
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not a matter if it's a matter of when.
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And my practice doesn't make those
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waves, those riptides go away.
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But it's giving me tools
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that allow me not to
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struggle.
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So now instead of
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fighting that riptide or fighting those
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big waves, I've got tools and
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techniques that allow me to cruise on
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out with that riptide
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and gain my baring and it catch
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the wave back in and ride
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that wave. And it's not
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always an enjoyable process, I mean it
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takes effort, but I'm no longer fighting.
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It doesn't change
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your circumstances, you're still not in a place you
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want to be and it's still
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painful at times.
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But there is a big difference
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between being in the middle of that
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crazy moment with a sense
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of control,
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with a sense of
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being able to not necessarily
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dictate what's going to happen next,
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but to recognize
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you're on top of it all.
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And that not necessarily get beat up.
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POD - Practice of the Day
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Mindfulness without the monastery.
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www.FeelingLikeSuperman.com
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