Mindful Living: Recent Episodes
Nitten Mahadik
In this episode I talk about how mindfulness can help us drop the made up self that we have created. The notion is self is not one solid self that we unconsciously hold in our minds. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nittenmahadik/message
By practising mindfulness we use a gentle approach to train the mind. We don't use force or try and arrest the mind but we cultivate awareness by being gentle and with an attitude of curiosity.
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The awareness and resilience we build in our mindfulness meditation can help us deal with challenging times in our life. The awareness of thoughts and emotions built in the meditation can help us manage and regulate strong emotions and respond to situations with choice
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Understanding the true nature of our thoughts, feelings and perceptions helps us realise that it is possible to have freedom from the mind by cultivating higher awareness
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A short segment from a live session that has one guided practice. It also has a short discussion about enhancing our inner conditions of peace.
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When we understand and experience the impermanent, unsatisfactory and selfless nature of the five aggregates, we can end the cycle of suffering the mind.
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Whatever is based on external conditions to acquire sensual pleasures can't bring us lasting happiness. We need to clearly distinguish between pleasure and happiness. #mindfulness #selfgrowth #reflections
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Every kind of attachment will turn into craving and self grasping. It's necessary to closely watch the nature of the mind which is constantly self grasping
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The higher purpose of meditation is beyond relaxation, feeling pleasant, sleeping well etc. The highest aim to end suffering
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We should dedicate some time for formal meditation practice to develop our awareness
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With a few mindfulness practices in this session, we did a practice of mindfulness of thoughts. This practice helps us not to get caught up in our thoughts. When we get caught up, then we are also carried away by the currents of the thoughts. We did a self-compassion practice. Self-compassion can be very useful especially when we don't mee our highest aspirations. With self-compassion we create a growth mindset.
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Along with various mindfulness practices in this session, we discussed how we can become mindfulness of disempowering narrative that we use to describe ourselves and the events that happen in life.
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Self love is not just about affirmations. It is beyond that
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In this session, we did a mindfulness practice using the sounds. A practice to relax the kind and the body. We also discussed self-compassion and how to use the energy of mindfulness for self-compassion
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Another live session from our weekly series. There was an interesting discussion in this session about the impact of social media and why we need to be even more mindful than before. The session also had four mindfulness practices
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This is a follow-up session from the Mindful Mondays' series
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Sharing my views on why we need to be more mindful and save ourselves to be manipulated by social media
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We cold take many short moments of being mindful and gradually bild the habit of mindfulness and integrate that in our daily life.
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Using sounds as support for meditation.
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Guided body scan meditation. This practice helps to develop moment to moment awareness.
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Shaping of self image and how do we build a safe inner world
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The way to snap out of auto pilot functioning is to be aware
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We are beyond our thoughts and emotions
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With higher self awareness and the energy of mindfulness we can look at self esteem from a different view point
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Mindfulness can help us to overcome the impact of past events and have a different understanding about getting over something.
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This audio explains how mindfulness can help us to look deeply within us and understand ourselves
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With the practice of mindfulness we can have a different understanding of setbacks and unpleasant situations that happen in our life.
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Clarity on the practice of Mindfulness
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This audio gives an understanding about dealing with thoughts in meditation.
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Using mindfulness to practice acceptance.
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Looking deeply with Mindfulness into the law of impermanence
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Be mindful about the disempowering questions that you ask yourselves which lead to more problems
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It's necessary that we handle our fear to take the right decisions
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We cannot exist without the other. We can only co-exist
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