Hello everyone welcome to this mindfulness meditation challenge.
So we can discuss you know how we can incorporate this beautiful practice into our life because at times these external differences you know based on gender,
Caste,
Religion,
Where we live all those things that create a division that create a sense of us versus them you know that disconnection.
We live in a world where we are like you know more prone to differences and this practice just help us see that reality that you and I are no different,
We have the same needs,
I feel the same way,
I have had good days and I have had you know low phases and you and I are no different at the basic level.
We all are trying our best based on whatever we know right isn't it?
Yeah I think this practice makes me emotional.
So how we can incorporate this sense of you know common humanity,
This sense of shared humanity and just take it away into our day.
So one thing that we can do is that we have although said this intention that everyone that we are going to meet today we will see that this person and I we share something this humanness at some level so seeing that shared humanity the phrases that we went through so that person also suffers because at times you know what happens is sometimes when we are suffering then we feel that we are the only one and you know everyone else is happy everyone else has everything sorted but we don't know that other person or what is going on inside that person so we just you know look at their maybe you know that social media and we think that wow this person is living such a good life and their life is all sorted and I am here struggling finding what I am supposed to do or feeling that I'm not enough and you know feeling isolated but that person has also suffered at some point in their life or maybe they are suffering now and we don't know yeah so everyone suffers you know that is the first noble truth that suffering is there and yeah we all are trying to do our best in our own way so right now like you can imagine or consider you know who are those people that you are likely to meet after like 15-20 minutes you know in this day or if it is night in your region then tomorrow who you are likely to encounter so if you are going to go to work maybe a co-worker or you know your family so who are these people that you are going to encounter and then each time just say in your mind that this person is just like me internally or at that basic foundational level this person is just like me and the statement will bring a lot of compassion and love to that conversation to that interaction understanding that person at a basic level and then responding it would be a beautiful beautiful world if you know everyone could just see that everyone has these needs and you know the thing is we all have these needs are the basic needs to feel safe to feel loved to feel understood to feel valued all these needs and we are just trying different things and maybe the way in which we try to meet that need that clashes with other person's needs and that you know creates conflict but the needs are the same we also have that need and it's just the way that they are trying to meet that need that is the cause of clash that is the cause of conflict and if only we could carry this practice and try to figure out a way in which we can meet each other needs it would be a beautiful beautiful world yeah so think of someone that you're going to interact with today or tomorrow so anyone you know you are going to encounter and just each time when you meet this person silently remind yourself that this person is just like me at the most basic level that's it that's the practice it is very simple one and it can be very effective one at the same time similarly other times in which you can include this practice is maybe when you wake up each day imagine waking up with this love in your heart when you wake up imagine that who are you possibly going to meet today we have a general idea right and just have each person in your mind or maybe have all of them in a circle in front of you and just say that you know this person or these people are just like me that's it and if you're going to like meet someone online you know like i'm meeting you guys then just before the meeting remind yourself that you know these people or this person is just like me they also have fears they also have hopes desires they also struggle they also have feelings they also would like to feel good and avoid pain you know the basic thing that we all humans want like more of pleasure and less of pain right so yeah just reminding this because at times these external differences make us forget that innate humanness that you know that connection that thread of common humanity and like sometimes you know when when we have these people in our lives supposedly i have my mom okay so i see her in that role so she is a mom but i forget that she is also a human being she is also an individual who has her own needs her own feelings her own desires and we just attach these expectations to the role the people play in our lives and just we just forget that humanness and it is just at the most basic level amongst the ones that we love and when it comes to like a more you know vast level like when it comes to you know based on where you live your religion and you know so there is like so much these differences create hatred whereas the sense of connection that sense of common humanity just create that compassion that this person is just like me you know this human being is just like me at the basic level maybe their ways you might not agree with their behavior and i'm not validating the wrong behavior but the basic needs are the same and the way might be wrong of meeting those needs that might be harmful to others or that person himself or herself or themselves but the basic needs are the same so that is the practice and that is how you can you know incorporate this into your life and if you like this practice if you like this live session or this meditation then i would really really appreciate you supporting my work with a donation it doesn't have to be a big one and if you can't make a donation then i would love you to please check out my work so you can check out my teacher's profile Anisha Maheshwari and you can just you know go through my content and see if it resonates with you so i i usually make content on like dealing with negative thoughts overcoming limiting beliefs and you know cultivating this mindfulness especially in our daily lives so i have like three courses on mindfulness three courses on negative thoughts and all of these things and i'm also doing a series so i am sharing emotion regulation techniques that might help you deal with difficult emotion or different states of the nervous system so every sunday i'm releasing a track so if you go into my profile and scroll to the last in the end you will see a playlist named nervous system regulation so in that i'm uploading the emotion regulation techniques and these meditations so we are doing this challenge we are going through the basic mindfulness meditations so i would be also uploading the recordings of these meditations by creating a playlist and yeah if you have missed like any of the previous meditations so you can follow me to get notified because i would be publishing them like after some time so maybe a week or two yeah so please check out my work i just want that my work reaches the people the right people like the ones who resonate with my work uh that's it for today's live and yeah we are going to do the last live tomorrow and in that we are going to do the practice another heart-based practice loving kindness meditation so if you love this one then you are going to love the you know next one and it is also being compassionate to not only others but also ourselves because we forget 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