Meditate without affecting your daily routine

What is meditation? Simply put, meditation is a way of relaxing. The more you meditate, the more relaxed your mind will become. The more relaxed you mind is, the less stressed you will feel and better still as you feel less stressed you will feel better, more confident and happier in yourself – it is what is called a virtuous circle!

So how do you access this gentle way of reducing stress, increasing your confidence and self esteem? The answer is that meditation is simple to practice, you don’t need to pay a fortune to an expert – you just need to read a few articles like this one.

In this article we will look at a really great way to practice meditation that won’t have any impact on your time or daily routine.

If the example below requires modifying to suit you, then please do so. It might suit you better, for example, to meditate in the way described below in a park.

With the meditation method suggested below, all you have to do is to slot your few precious minutes of meditation into your daily schedule – and although that probably won’t be easy, you have to be strict with yourself. You wouldn’t be reading this article if you didn’t think you were in real need of a way of distressing, would you?

So if you are busy, maybe an office worker who suffers the daily commute or a single parent who suffers alone – why not combine your meditation with something that you already do. You probably walk to and from the station to commute to work if you are an office worker, or to your children’s school if you are a single parent.

Decide on a path that you are very familiar – this is a perfect path for a practice that Monks used to undertake, walking meditation.

In the days of the large closed monasteries, Monks would meditate while walking around a Cloister. A Cloister is an open area, often grassed, sometimes with a fountain in the centre – although of course nothing like the walk that you do at least twice a day – it is similar in that it doesn’t require any conscious thought to navigate around.

All you have to do is to start to breath deeply and deliberately, and then when you are ready and have a sense that you can feel your entire body, start to walk slowly.

As you walk you will begin to discover that you can feel more of your body, and the way that it is walking and all of the worries and thoughts that you started with are slowly going to the back of your mind. Now you are meditating – and the more you do this, the easier it will become and the better you will feel.

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