Eve Lewis Prieto, Director of Teaching at Headspace, discusses the benefits of practicing meditation. She explains how meditation helps navigate life's challenges and create space for clearer responses. Also, mentioned is the Managing Anxiety Course in the Headspace app.
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Meditation allows us to view difficult situations from within and gain insight without being overwhelmed by them.
By creating space through mindfulness, we can separate and observe our thoughts and emotions, gaining clarity and effectively navigating anxiety for personal growth and well-being.
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The Power of Meditation in Difficult Times
Meditation helps us transform how we relate to difficult situations by cultivating awareness, clarity, and compassion. Using the analogy of a storm, the practice allows us to view the storm from within, gaining insight and understanding without being overwhelmed by it. By creating space between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors through mindfulness, we gain clarity, recognize the difference between our thoughts and reality, and navigate the ups and downs of life.
The Importance of Space in Managing Anxiety
Anxiety, a normal emotion rooted in apprehension, often leads to repetitive thought cycles. Meditation and mindfulness practice provide the space necessary to separate and observe our thoughts, emotions, and feelings, gaining clarity on their origin and realizing that they are not the truth. By creating space between layers of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, we can identify and navigate anxiety more effectively, facilitating personal growth and well-being.
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Understanding the Purpose of Meditation: Finding Clarity in the Midst of Life's Storms
There are many reasons to practice meditation. Today, Eve breaks down the benefits of a consistent practice.
Eve Lewis Prieto is Director of Teaching at Headspace, a certified Mindfulness & Meditation teacher and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor. At Headspace, Eve helps to introduce new meditation teachers to the platform and creates and oversees a wide array of meditation and mindfulness experiences that meet the diverse needs of our members. She is passionate about teaching the benefits of these time-honoured practices, with the aim of helping people take care of their mental health.
Send any general questions to askeve@headspace.com, or you can connect and meditate with Eve via Instagram @meditatewitheve where she leads a weekly live meditation.