New York Life Coach ~ Meditation In Motion
Having practiced sitting meditation twice daily since being a teenager, it became clear I could take this quiet still open-hearted softness into the world and experience a new richness of life. I began exploring the possibilities of meditation in motion. The simplest form of seated meditation is easy to learn, easy to do, and offers immediate benefits. Meditation in motion is just the art of remembering this feeling of peace throughout the day and connecting to it.
Meditation is a wonderful way to increase your happiness quota because you release everything external for a period of time, and rest deeply in your inner sanctum when you sit quietly. When you move along with your day, whether you've meditated for one minute or twenty or for an hour or more, you will instantly feel more rested than if you’ve slept. You feel relaxed and happy. You’ve settled in your heart where everything is beautiful and free. The place inside that is unbounded, unbridled, unburdened where no critics live! The place of rich and luminous prisms of color and possibility! Blood pressure decreases, the heart rate slows and the outer world falls away. You can’t help but come gently out of this experience more peace filled. After having practiced most of my life I can tell you all you need to do is sit still somewhere you’re comfortable for a minute or two with your eyes closed and just focus on inhaling slowly and exhaling even more slowly. Breathe in to the count of 4 and breathe out to the count of 8 and that’s it. Some people can’t sit for long periods of time and you don’t need to because it’s more about regularity of complete silence to allow your mind to become empty, your body to be comfortably still and your heart to be open. You can follow any path you like and make meditation anything you want it to be however, it’s not even necessary to think about any mantras (a word to repeat to help focus the mind) or practice any ritual. Just sit there and breathe slowly and deeply for a minute or two! How easy is that for tangible results!
I’ve experienced forms of meditation that are quite rigorous and austere, others that test my body to it's physical brink. In India I remember a form of meditation that was intoxicating and easy. I’ve meditated with Buddhist Monks, Saints, Sages, Gurus and other Spiritual Masters. I’ve followed precise instructions to the letter and been a most eager student over the years. What I've learned by teaching middle school, high school students, college age young people and the life coach clients I work with is that whatever is easy, simple and rings true for you to instill a habit of connecting to this deep reservoir is the best form of meditation!
You can have more peace in your life today. Sit quietly and close your eyelids, now breathe in and out. Take the peace you feel into your daily activities and keep connecting to it. When your monkey mind begins to chatter away saying things that don’t make you feel good, stop for a few seconds and slow your breath down. Drop your thoughts into your heart. You'll start a new habit. Your mind will realize it's been given a break, and it’ll quiet down. Check in with your emotions. If a conversation, circumstance, experience or anything else doesn’t ‘feel good’ ~ quietly let it go and reach for a thought that feels better than that. We all have little moments every day where we feel our feathers ruffled or are disappointed, hurt, feel put upon or projected upon, someone cuts us off when we’re driving, or negates our feelings. It’s natural to react. Release this feeling and take a few conscious breaths. Find a feeling that feels better. Keep dropping your thoughts into your heart and living from here because it’s where peace is and drama isn’t.
As you practice the art of meditation in motion, you feel harmony within, more hope, happiness and much less stress!
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