From the course: Mindfulness for Beginners

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The only moment you have

The only moment you have

- [Instructor] Welcome to this program that's called Mindfulness for Beginners. I'm delighted to be working with you in this way, and I do so in the hope that whatever it was that drew you to the allure of mindfulness, that that very impulse can be explored and nurtured so that it will grow and develop because no one comes to a program such as this by accident. There has to be some underlying impulse that longs for a certain knowing or way of being that may feel elusive, but is also a sense that is highly desirable. Otherwise you wouldn't even bother to pick up a program such as this. Also, each one of us brings our own genius to such adventures, and we always build on what's come before in our lives, even if much of it was and perhaps still is painful. Our entire past, whatever it's been, when it comes right down to it becomes the very platform for doing the work of being in the present moment. And it becomes both the…

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