I'm here to challenge you...and trust me...I never said any of this was going to be easy. So here's my challenge to you.
Before I ask you to do this, I want you to keep an open mind. Take on a meditation practice. Really, take it on.
Give me a minute to explain to you why this is so important in your life. Lend me your ears as they would say.
You will gain absolutely nothing from a meditation practice. Nada. Zip. Zero. And if you are starting to get uncomfortable with the word meditation, let's just call it a sitting practice instead.
I'm asking you to find a place every single day, for 10 minutes a day (set your timer), cross your legs, close your eyes, and focus on your breath. That's it. No guided meditations, no ohms, no sound, nothing.
Breath away and sit there quietly.
Now here's what I'm really up to with all of this.
Even though you aren't going to gain anything from meditation, you are going to get something completely different out of it entirely. You will actually experience something that many people don't get to experience at all. The "falling away" of things that are plaguing your life. All of the fear, doubt, and worry starts to drip out of you as you really take the time to slow down and focus on being in the present moment.
If thoughts and emotions come in and distract you, don't get mad at yourself, simply come back to your breath. If you get all wrapped up in something or your internal critic is going off, don't get mad or anxious, just come back to your breath.
And that's what this is all about - constantly coming back. Over a 10 minute meditation, you can literally come back hundreds of times. But that's actually the point...you keep coming back to this moment.
Really give this practice a good try. And with any practice we engage in to nourish and heal ourselves, we experience a constant falling in and a falling out of it. We miss a couple of days but then we recommit back to what we know nourishes us and take it back on again.
Always come back.
Before I ask you to do this, I want you to keep an open mind. Take on a meditation practice. Really, take it on.
Give me a minute to explain to you why this is so important in your life. Lend me your ears as they would say.
You will gain absolutely nothing from a meditation practice. Nada. Zip. Zero. And if you are starting to get uncomfortable with the word meditation, let's just call it a sitting practice instead.
I'm asking you to find a place every single day, for 10 minutes a day (set your timer), cross your legs, close your eyes, and focus on your breath. That's it. No guided meditations, no ohms, no sound, nothing.
Breath away and sit there quietly.
Now here's what I'm really up to with all of this.
Even though you aren't going to gain anything from meditation, you are going to get something completely different out of it entirely. You will actually experience something that many people don't get to experience at all. The "falling away" of things that are plaguing your life. All of the fear, doubt, and worry starts to drip out of you as you really take the time to slow down and focus on being in the present moment.
If thoughts and emotions come in and distract you, don't get mad at yourself, simply come back to your breath. If you get all wrapped up in something or your internal critic is going off, don't get mad or anxious, just come back to your breath.
And that's what this is all about - constantly coming back. Over a 10 minute meditation, you can literally come back hundreds of times. But that's actually the point...you keep coming back to this moment.
Really give this practice a good try. And with any practice we engage in to nourish and heal ourselves, we experience a constant falling in and a falling out of it. We miss a couple of days but then we recommit back to what we know nourishes us and take it back on again.
Always come back.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into these great Change Your Life Quotes to help you get some Motivation To Lose Some Weight and have the best year of your life.
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