Mindfulness Meditation: What it is, how to use it, ways to sustain your practice.
One to Four sessions to get started on a daily mindfulness practice and learn how to use mindfulness throughout the day for greater peace, attention, and focus.
Being mindful means bringing your awareness to your experience of the present moment, whether that is what you are seeing, hearing, or feeling. You can become mindful of physical sensations, thoughts, and emotions. An easy and effective way of being mindful is to bring your awareness to your breath, either the sensation of the air coming in and out under your nostrils, or the rise and fall of your abdomen. Formal mediation is traditionally practiced in a cross-legged position sitting on a meditation pillow, with the hands resting one on top of the other. However, you can sit in a chair, or practice while lying down or walking.
If you have never tried sitting meditation, it can be challenging at first. But if you are motivated with the practice, you will find that, over time, you will be able to lengthen and strengthen your attention. And you will begin to enjoy the process.
By practicing mindfulness meditation in which we continually bring the focus back to the breath or other anchor every time we are distracted, we learn to do this during the day during all our activities.
