I'm not here to do anything but help you change your life. It's not going to be easy. There are going to be some times where it's going to hurt. But if you stick with it you're going to change. So here's my challenge to you today.
Take on a meditation practice. Before you go, "Oh please that's hippie nonsense" I really would like for you to hear me out.
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.
For 10 minutes a day sit down on the floor and focus only on your breath. That's it. Nothing guided. Nothing prompting you. Nothing to focus on except your breath and what you are doing with that breath.
Breath and continue breathing as much as possible.
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.
When the thoughts and emotions fly into your head, let them. Don't get mad at them or try to get rid of them. Just focus on coming back to your breath instead of getting wrapped up in the uncontrollable.
Meditation is really about learning how to come back to the present moment over and over again. Fundamentally speaking, the present moment is the only moment we have so we must learn how to arrive back into it.
With any practice, you are going to be in and out of it. You might miss a couple days or a couple of weeks, but always make sure to come back to it. It's important to view the practices we engage in our lives as things that "nourish" us instead of things we "have to do." There's a huge difference there.
Always come back.
Take on a meditation practice. Before you go, "Oh please that's hippie nonsense" I really would like for you to hear me out.
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.
For 10 minutes a day sit down on the floor and focus only on your breath. That's it. Nothing guided. Nothing prompting you. Nothing to focus on except your breath and what you are doing with that breath.
Breath and continue breathing as much as possible.
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.
When the thoughts and emotions fly into your head, let them. Don't get mad at them or try to get rid of them. Just focus on coming back to your breath instead of getting wrapped up in the uncontrollable.
Meditation is really about learning how to come back to the present moment over and over again. Fundamentally speaking, the present moment is the only moment we have so we must learn how to arrive back into it.
With any practice, you are going to be in and out of it. You might miss a couple days or a couple of weeks, but always make sure to come back to it. It's important to view the practices we engage in our lives as things that "nourish" us instead of things we "have to do." There's a huge difference there.
Always come back.
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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.