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Actionable Insights
1. Cultivate Emotional Capacity
Develop the ability to be with big emotions, not fear them, understand they will pass, and utilize available tools to navigate them. This helps you manage your own intense feelings and hold space for others experiencing similar emotions.
2. Treat Practice as Experiment
Approach meditation practices as an experiment, trying them without taking them too seriously, and checking in with your body and mind to see if they feel good or are helpful. This flexible mindset encourages continued engagement and prevents prematurely dismissing practices.
3. Seek Joy in Practice
Actively seek a sense of joy in your meditation practice, as this feeling is what motivates continued engagement and helps you endure difficult experiences without bypassing or avoiding them.
4. Be Present in Moments
Make an effort to be present in short moments throughout your day to notice positive things and bolster your morale, especially during challenging times.
5. Trust Your Inner Guidance
Learn to tune into a deep, trustworthy inner place to guide your life decisions, especially when external pressures or stories are influencing you. This helps you make choices aligned with your true self.
6. Play with Teachings
Approach meditation teachings with a playful attitude, as this keeps the practice interesting, exciting, and something you genuinely want to engage with regularly.
7. Undertake Intensive Retreats
Consider undertaking an intensive meditation retreat, such as a 10-day Vipassana retreat, where distractions like reading, music, exercise, talking, and emotional eating are removed, leaving you to confront and process your mind and emotions.
8. Study Ancient Teachings
Study ancient teachings of Buddhism and principles like generosity to become more attuned to the subtle ways these qualities manifest in the world and in your life.