A Guided Meditation For First Thing In The Morning | Bonus Meditation with Alexis Santos
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Start focused on what's truly important. When you pause to remember the big picture, your day can move forward grounded in integrity & wisdom.
About Alexis Santos:
Alexis has practiced and taught Insight Meditation in both the East and West since 2001. He has been a long-time student of Sayadaw U Tejaniya (a well respected meditation teacher in Burma whose teachings have attracted a global audience), and his teaching emphasizes knowing the mind through a natural and relaxed continuity -- a style of practice that's particularly useful during our crazy lives. Alexis has completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training, teaches retreats across the globe, and currently lives in Portland, Maine.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody time for a bonus meditation. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we've got something for the morning and this is good for whatever temperament you happen to have if you're the type of person who leaps out of bed in the morning. This is good for you. |
| 0:41.0 | If you're not a morning person, also good for you. Our meditation teacher Dujour is my friend Alexis Santos |
| 0:46.2 | who's been practicing and teaching Insight Meditation in both the East and the West |
| 0:50.6 | since 2001. He has completed the Spirit Rock IMS teacher training and he teaches |
| 0:56.1 | retreats all over the planet and he lives right now in Maine. Alexis Santos over to you. |
| 1:02.2 | Good morning. This is Alexis. |
| 1:05.0 | Morning time can offer a unique time to practice |
| 1:09.0 | before we fully pick up all of the activities and roles that define us, that can narrow our |
| 1:16.1 | heart and attention, it can be meaningful to consider some of the deeper truths of our experience. |
| 1:24.0 | In this meditation, we'll be exploring the wisdom that |
| 1:28.0 | mindfulness practice reveals to as to have a more intentional, more meaningful rest of the day. |
| 1:35.0 | Let's begin. |
| 1:37.0 | Sit comfortably in a posture that feels natural to you, |
| 1:41.0 | taking this time to rest the body. |
| 1:45.0 | You can close your eyes if that's comfortable, or gently soften your gaze. |
| 1:51.0 | Just sensing how this moment feels for you. How does the body feel? It's all changing from moment to moment. |
| 2:25.0 | Change is one of the most fundamental and significant truths of our lives. |
| 2:32.0 | This entire universe is governed by change, from the physical |
| 2:38.0 | elements to the non-physical aspects of our minds. |
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