Precious Human Life

How to enhance your happiness through an appreciation of life's fundamental preciousness.

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Sometimes when we sit to meditate we can get caught up in our everyday lives. There's a lot to think about. Our work, our family, our hopes, dreams, fears. We forget that pausing, resting the mind in awareness provides a way for us to really appreciate the preciousness of life. You know that feeling where you directly experience what it means to be alive. To feel genuinely grateful if only for a moment. As we feel grateful for our physical health, for our friends and family. For having food, shelter and hopefully freedom of movement. Or perhaps just feeling grateful for a mind which although may be troublesome at times has the potential to be both healthy and happy. These are the things that we can so easily take for granted when we're very caught up in life. Always chasing after the future. Always looking back to the past. But resting in awareness allows us to let go of both the future and the past. Not in a negative way but to simply let go. To rest the mind in the present with an appreciation of just how precious is human life really is....

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TypeExpert Guidance

Duration1 min

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A former Buddhist monk, Andy has guided people in meditation and mindfulness for 20 years. In his mission to make these practices accessible to all, he co-created the Headspace app in 2010.
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Eve is a mindfulness teacher, overseeing Headspace’s meditation curriculum. She is passionate about sharing meditation to help others feel less stressed and experience more compassion in their lives.
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As a meditation teacher, Dora encourages others to live, breathe, and be with the fullness of their experiences. She loves meditation’s power to create community and bring clarity to people’s minds.
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Kessonga has been an acupuncturists, therapist, and meditation teacher, working to bring mindfulness to the diverse populations of the world.
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Rosie Acosta has studied yoga and mindfulness for more than 20 years and taught for over a decade. Rosie’s mission is to help others overcome adversity and experience radical love.
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