Finding Your True North: Integrating Intention with Mindfulness Practice

Unconditional Healing with Jeff Rubin

This episode is a solo show, featuring a talk I gave recently at the Healing Circle. It’s entitled “Finding Your True North: Integrating Intention with Mindfulness Practice", and is especially timely given the resurgence of the pandemic. It has to do with contemplating and sussing out our most deeply held beliefs, especially when feeling uncertain and discouraged. Intentions, as I explain, are different than goals, although the latter are best served when they spring from the former.

In this talk, I differentiate between the overarching intentions that carry us throughout our life and the 24-hour intentions that help us relate to the daily challenges that we face. The desire to live with intention leads to questions like, “Why am I doing what I’m doing?” or “Am I living the life I want and crave?” Once we establish intentions, the process is aided and supported by mindfully checking in with ourselves as a way of staying on track and refining our values and beliefs. I also talk about the early morning when we first awaken as (counter-intuitively) being one of the best times to carry out this investigation process.
I hope you will enjoy this episode and find it helpful with staying in touch with who you are and living by your values during these perilous times.

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