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Everyday Motivational Affirmations - Joy Meditation · Everyday Motivational Affirmations

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  Speaker 1: Sit comfortably in a quiet place where you can be
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  Speaker 1: free from distractions. Let your spine be neutral and tall.
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  Speaker 1: Rest your hands in your lap or on your thighs
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  Speaker 1: in a way that promotes a release of your shoulders
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  Speaker 1: and an expansion of your chest. Close your eyes or
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  Speaker 1: keep your gaze soft and low, and focus your attention inward.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe steadily in and out through your nose. Find a quiet, patient, easy,
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  Speaker 1: and comfortable breath. Watch the breath moving in and out
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  Speaker 1: through your nose, and then invite joy into your practice
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  Speaker 1: by silently contemplating your why. Joyful effort arises when we
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  Speaker 1: understand our purpose. Why meditate? Why practice mindfulness? What benefits
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  Speaker 1: do you hope to receive? By understanding intention and why
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  Speaker 1: you are prioritizing your practice, the effort involved with practicing
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  Speaker 1: becomes imbued with joy and ease. Recall why you are
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  Speaker 1: here right now meditating today. Allow a deep satisfaction to
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  Speaker 1: arise as you apply effort joyfully, and then, with your
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  Speaker 1: why and mind, cultivate joyful effort by shifting your awareness
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  Speaker 1: to benefits you've already received through this practice of mindfulness
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  Speaker 1: and meditation. Recall how good you feel on the days
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  Speaker 1: you Meditate what it feels like to start the day mindfully,
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  Speaker 1: and the pride you feel in remaining still and present
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  Speaker 1: until the bell goes off or until the timer rings.
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  Speaker 1: With your next inhale breath, set up a little taller
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  Speaker 1: as you rest in the joy of the benefits of mindfulness.
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  Speaker 1: Count the ways in which your life has improved with
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  Speaker 1: mindfulness as your refuge, and then cultivate joyful effort by
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  Speaker 1: placing your attention on the positive sensations you're aware of
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  Speaker 1: right now. Calm, quiet, ease, spaciousness, patience, awareness. Notice all
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  Speaker 1: the ways in which being here right now brings you joy.
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  Speaker 1: Feel these positive sensations in the body and in the breath.
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  Speaker 1: Recognize that these positive qualities do not appear accidentally. They
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  Speaker 1: are the direct result of your effort. Rejoice in the
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  Speaker 1: effort you're applying to your meditation right here, right now.
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice in that effort and rest in awareness of the
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  Speaker 1: joyful benefits you're receiving. Understand and that while joy is
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  Speaker 1: a result of your practice, joy arises when we joyfully practice.
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  Speaker 1: Joy is only revealed by consistently applying effort. Joy is
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  Speaker 1: revealed through joyful practice. Joy is both the cause and
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  Speaker 1: the result, So joy then must have been within you
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  Speaker 1: all along. Joy is not gained through practice, but revealed.
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  Speaker 1: The more you tap into joy, the more you reveal
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  Speaker 1: joy through your effort, the more you experience joy as
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  Speaker 1: the result, the more you notice joy arising. You have
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  Speaker 1: always had the potential to be joyful. You have always
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  Speaker 1: had the potential to notice to be mindful. You our joy.
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  Speaker 1: You are awareness. Rest in the sensation of joy, the
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  Speaker 1: joy you apply to your efforts here and the joy
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  Speaker 1: you reveal through those same efforts. Rest in joy until
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  Speaker 1: you're ready to open your eyes.