By I started with Headspace‘s ten minute guided meditation (Take 10) just a few months back. I’m now on day 20 of a longer, Take 20 minutes guided meditation. My meditation is far from perfect (none are, according to many veteran meditation practitioners) but I plan on continuing this habit. If you are wondering what made me take on this habit, here’s why:
- Laser sharp focus to what I value most– family, career, education, finances and advocacies. I could analyze efforts and results calmly and start with actionable steps right away. Finding balance between too much analysing and decision making paralysis also improved noticeably!
- Decluttered my life – together with journaling, I’ve cut down excesses like unnecessary expenses and mindless going outs. I also had some success on achieving my low information diet goals like reducing TV time and social media glut. For example, I managed to take off 1,000+ friends on FB without noticeable effects on my social media advocacies.
- Balanced Optimism– I’m taking every information as constructive as possible, avoid whining or debating minutiae and would rather find solutions or actionable steps.
- Boost in energy level with less caffeine. Brought my caffeine sensitivity level down (3 cups) but added a kicking hour to my productive day.
- Patience– able to could withstand mean people, events or happenings longer. I empathize more than before. 🙂
- Creative thinking and doing. I went back to actively finding solutions myself to challenges I used to outsource before. Read on reports and papers meticulously than before. Renewed interest in fixing things around- appliances, furnitures and hacking ones I needed. I also had more time to read books!
My routine is so simple I could meditate while inside a bus, inside my parked car or just about anywhere you’re comfortably seated! So give meditation a shot! Take the simplest meditation to follow and stick to it even just for ten days.
Interested what or how I do my meditation routine? Stay tuned for my next post on this.
Last modified: July 16, 2017
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