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Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts Lindsay Bridges
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This is a resource from Charlotte Center for Mindfulness. Our mission is:
Empowering individuals and our diverse communities through mindfulness to create a more intentionally compassionate and engaged Charlotte.
www.ccmindful.org
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Thank You. I Am Grateful For Everything
Once there was a wise old sage, and people would travel a long ways to receive his teachings. He always taught one thing, a mantra to say to everything in life: Thank you, I am grateful for everything.
One time a man received this teaching and said it with everything for a year. At the end of the year, he was still irritable, impatient, frustrated and tired. So he traveled back to the wise old sage, shared his story and asked what to do now. The sage said, “Thank you, I am grateful for everything.” The man almost broke down in frustration and then suddenly laughed, saying, “thank you I am grateful for everything,” and left free.
What changed? How do you make sense of the shift that happened for this man? Understanding the essence of this shift is how we open in the direction of the true authentic healing of mindfulness. -
Sitting Meditation- Welcoming the moment
How we meet the moment of waking back up, makes all the difference in our practice. This city meditation is an opportunity to deeply explore that moment of re-awakening.
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The Safe Harbor of Moment to Moment Awareness [5.22.24]
Today we continue to look at how re-anchoring in moment to moment awareness is a powerful practice in finding a better way to navigate any day. This talk draws from Tara Brach’s practice of Four Remembrances: Pausing, Yes to Life, Turning toward love, and Resting in Awareness.
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Sitting Meditation- Four Remembrances [5.22.24]
This meditation draws from Tara Brach, teaching on four remembrances for practice:
Pausing, saying yes to life, turning towards love, resting in awareness.
What It Is
It is nonsense
says reason
It is what it is
says love
It is calamity
says calculation
It is nothing but pain
says fear
It is hopeless
says insight
It is what it is
says love
It is ludicrous
says pride
It is foolish
says caution
It is impossible
says experience
It is what it is
says love
Erich Fried -
The Safe Haven of Moment to Moment Mindfulness [5.15.24]
This talk explores how bringing moment to moment mindfulness into daily life has nothing to do with “being good!” and everything instead to do with “being sane”.
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Sitting Meditation- Just Being Here [5.15.24]
in this practice, we explore opening to the wholeness of what’s here, the gratitude and release as well as the contracted and reactionary.