Mediate while you wait

Well, I don’t nec­es­sar­ily mean only while you’re wait­ing, but it was a catchy title.

I mean medi­ate pretty much any­time you  don’t really need to be con­cen­trat­ing or when you’re doing things that are sec­ond nature.

Our brains are run­ning so fast all day, any break we can give them is beni­fi­cial to our mind and there­fore our body: each thought has a chem­i­cal reac­tion, there­fore your thoughts affect your body. The thoughts can cre­ate stress and ten­sion. Of course think­ing happy stuff is allowed

The brains job is to think, so stop­ping it is quite chal­leng­ing. With prac­tice, it can be done. Especially  for short amounts of time.

Med­i­tat­ing for 10 min­utes each day is said to be ben­e­fi­cial for body, mind and soul. The goal of med­i­tat­ing is to achieve non-thought. Health and hap­pi­ness follows.

Find­ing just 10 min­utes a day can some­times be chal­leng­ing and or it can feel like a chore.

So why not steel snip­pets of men­tal silence all through the day. You’ll be sur­prised how much of your day you can spend in non thought!

This way you can can help your­self relax and achieve men­tal calm through out each day.

Top Tip 1: Con­cen­trate on your breath, sing a mantra, say a pos­i­tive affir­ma­tion, sing a song, hum, whistle…anything that will keep your mind from thought. I rec­om­mend doing some­thing audi­ble. This way when your mind kicks back in and you start think­ing again, your ears will realise and send a mes­sage to your brain that you’re think­ing again.

Top tip 2: Do this for long enough, and like any hab­bit, it will become sec­ond nature and you’ll start doing it naturally.

Top Tip 3: Keep and eye on your mind while you’re breath­ing or whistling. You’ll be sur­prised how much think­ing your mind can do with­out you noticing.

Top Tip 3: Put notes around to remind you to do it. Put some in your diary too

Top Tip 4: When you start ‘not see­ing’ the reminder notes…take them down for a while or move them to another place.

Here is a list of things we do daily or weekly dur­ing which we can ‘meditate’.

Dri­ving any­where, no mat­ter how short the trip. (Of course you’ll still be con­cen­trat­ing on the road! )

Walk­ing any­where, no mat­ter how short the walk (includ­ing around the house and the office)

Ablu­tions: flossing, brushing teeth, bathing, show­er­ing, stand­ing at/sitting on the loo.

Kitchen related: wait­ing for the ket­tle to boil, the whole process of mak­ing your tea, pack­ing and unpack­ing the dish­washer, unpack­ing your groceries.

Per­sonal groom­ing: Dress­ing, shav­ing, putting on makeup, brushing/blow dry­ing your hair, waxing.

Laun­dry: seper­at­ing your clothes, putting them in the machine, hanging up, fold­ing up, putting away.

Wait­ing: in a que, for a bus/train,

Sit­ting: dur­ing the ads on telly (top tip: mute the telly dur­ing ads)

House hold: water­ing the plants, putting things away, tidy­ing up, clean­ing, gardening, vacuuming

Shop­ping: pack­ing the gro­ceries in the bags and then into the car, standing in the que.

Clean­ing: your car, your pets, your house

Can you think of more?

Rec­om­mended reading:

The 5 Minute Med­i­ta­tor: Quick Med­i­ta­tions to Calm Your Body and Your Mind

Tags: healing, meditation, positive living, relaxation, stress

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