How Meditation Benefits Everyday Life | Documentary Clip

so meditation is a way to help us find our way back to home what is home that quality of sort of stable open clear just sense of well-being this is what mind jeremiah's talking about when he talks about joy i can watch myself now in situations that i know would have just gotten me so immediately angry that reactivity that absolutely had its way in my life it really doesn't have much of a chance anymore i'm more able to be aware of what's happening while it's happening and i think that creates space for me than to respond to what's happening to rather than just react inner peace stillness contentment confidence compassion wisdom all these things that we think that we have to develop or that we don't have and we somehow need to cultivate or obtain or attain it's more a matter of exploring one's mind and one's experience and seeing that actually all these qualities are there in the present moment and we just haven't recognized them i think it just helps slow things down i am so much more comfortable in my own skin because i'm not reactive it's not that we need to shut off our emotions or shut off our thoughts but we're no longer ruled by them either so we have a choice and what's really powerful is you watch it arises it's there and it passes away the meditation it changes my experience of the world and so then that in turn changes the world that i was experiencing when we begin to consciously engage with our experience in the moment we begin to see truly how our mind works and connection between external experience and our internal experience the story of our lives the experience of really has its origin in our own minds of how we see things how we perceive things how we react how we respond that's all within ourselves and to learn about that we don't have to be caught in the habit patterns of our conditioning to see that there are options for how we respond to circumstances it's a hugely freeing thing you