We’re all living faster, working harder
World Meditation Day 2024 – May 21st
We’re all living faster, working harder and often so busy that we forget to take a moment to sit back, close our eyes and just breathe. But today is World Meditation Day, the perfect opportunity to turn within and give it a try. So, let’s inhale, exhale, and let a sense of calm transform your day.
In my latest short videos you get to practice a very simple route into meditation, and simple is often the best way. Just a small practice each day can make a big difference, trust me!
- Set a timer for 3 minutes on your phone.
- Pop your hand on your tummy, and follow your breath for ten breaths
- Slowly in, slower out (with your nose if you can)
- Perhaps breathing in for the count of 5, and breathing out for 7
- After ten breaths, let go of that and just sit quietly for the remaining time. Aware of your breathing, quiet and listening.
Why not set yourself a little challenge to do it each day this week, and see where this leads you?
Last but not least, when I share my meditations with you, it’s not only the mindful breathing, focused mind or sense of calm that I want to share. It’s what’s underneath the meditation, ‘something beyond all measure’, as Krishnamurti puts it.
That’s what I love, and what I want to point us toward with the many meditation practices, flowers, nature based events, art or the poems we share together.
And so, let’s close this note with a quote from the fab philosopher Krishnamurti, shall we?
‘Silence is something that comes naturally when you are watching, when you are watching without motive, without any kind of demand, just to watch, and see the beauty of a single star in the sky, or to watch a single tree in a field, or to watch your wife or husband, or whatever you watch. To watch with a great silence and space. Then in that watching, in that alertness, there is something that is beyond words, beyond all measure.’
Lovely isn’t it …
Save this note to practice with this week, and forward to a friend who might benefit by giving it a try.
If you love to read, I’d recommend my meditation guide book ‘Inhale. Exhale. Repeat’ ( Penguin books, 2017).
I also offer a small number of private sessions, available online which may suit you.
