of your body. Breathing in through
your nose and expelling the breath
out through your mouth.
Lastly complete 20 seconds
of body-awareness: Allow your
awareness to now spread and feel
it all over your body, observing it
from the top of your head to the
tips of your toes. Mainly focusing
on the centre area between your
eyebrows, throat, heart, chest,
stomach, and bottom of your
spine.
The posture stage creates a suitable
foundation for the meditation,
a receptive body that would
then invite awareness inwards.
Followed by the breathing stage to
create a focal point, which draws
your awareness away from your
entangled thoughts. And finally,
the awareness stage, allowing you
to come in touch with whatever is
going on in your body. All of these
feelings and sensations combined
reflect your reaction to life and
practising observation of them will
allow your reactions to subside.
Try it, and don’t give in after a couple
of attempts, you wouldn’t give up
learning to drive after two lessons
because you haven’t passed your
test yet, the same applies here we
master it with patience, practise
and perseverance.
Once
you’ve
cracked
the
60-second meditation, you can
begin to explore other types of
meditation until you find one that
suits your circumstances and you
find works for you. Meditation
is a very personal thing and can
help anyone. It definitely isn’t just
about dropping into silence in an
uncomfortable yoga pose.
You can mediate in the shower,
whilst running, whilst eating or
drinking, you just need to bring
your focus, complete attention and
awareness to the activity and learn
how to prevent your mind from
drifting.
Put simply meditation is yoga for
the mind, so I guess I do know how
to do yoga after all.
When you learn to focus your
attention in a conscious state, with
people, objects, tasks and really be
present and aware you will begin
to observe how much more you
enjoy food and drink, conversation,
books, working, people, nature.
It’s time to switch off the auto-pilot
sub-conscious and be present. It’s
time to stop procrastinating, get
focused and be proud to let people
know you meditate for productivity.
Meditation isn’t just for spiritualists
and yoga experts. It’s for everyone,
and can be practised any time, any
place, anywhere.
Warning! - Meditation will make
you a focused badass!
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