Ever find yourself worried and overwhelmed and don’t know how to calm down? Ever feel like you’re wrapped in a blanket of anxiety?
Meditation is one of the easiest yet overlooked methods for bringing peace into your life and reducing stress.
Setting aside only 20 minutes to focus on yourself and your breathing can help improve mindfulness and your quality of life.
It is a simple way to calm your nerves and benefit the mind, body, and soul.
Here are a few tips and tricks to implement meditation into your everyday life with:
Find a Quiet Place:
Being surrounded by lots of people and loud noises can distract you from finding your inner peace. Sitting in a place without distractions can help keep you focused on relaxing and calming yourself down.
From your bedroom to your car or a sunny spot outside, these are perfect places to take some time to yourself and drown out the noise from the rest of the world.
Find Meditation Podcast:
Sometimes it can be difficult to stop your mind from wandering or telling yourself to breathe and relax.
Listening to podcasts that can lead you in a meditation exercise can be extremely helpful in keeping your mind from running and pointing it in the right direction.
Applications like Calm and Headspace have hundreds of guided meditations with specific goals to help you accomplish a peaceful meditation.
Streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music also have meditation podcasts that help guide your mind when you’re ready to practice mindfulness.
Take Deep Breaths:
Focusing on your breath is key to a successful meditation session. Not only does it help in slowing down your heart rate, but focusing on your breathing helps zone out the rest of the world during your 20-minute meditation sessions.
One helpful technique for deep breathing is the 4-7-8 breathing method.
Start by inhaling through your nose for four seconds, holding that breath for seven seconds, and exhaling through your mouth for eight seconds.
Completing this cycle a few tips can help lower blood pressure and heart rate.
Keep your mind from wandering:
One of the hardest parts of meditation is keeping your mind at that moment and not letting it wander off.
Meditation is about being in the present moment and not worrying about moments in the past or moments in the future.
You can’t change the past and you can’t predict the future so worrying about these moments is unnecessary.
Take the time during your meditation to be present and focus on bettering yourself at that moment.
Meditation takes practice and work but following these simple steps can help you get there.
Taking only 20 minutes out of your day to focus on the present and yourself can have a huge positive impact on your health and improve how you see the world.
In a world full of stress and chaos, these 20 minutes are crucial to your well-being.
