Meditating is fun! And relaxing. And good for you. No I'm not being sarcastic, it really is all that. I finally read a book that I had bought eons ago about meditation, and it really works for me.
You are instructed to meditate for 8 minutes each day for seven days just doing one thing, for example: the first week all I had to do was really listen to my breath, feel it in my body, my nostrils, going down the back of my throat etc.
Sure my thoughts ran away with me constantly, but, as the book advised, I allowed them to come and gently released them. It actually works, I bet out of 8 minutes, I had about 10 seconds of pure meditation. Ten seconds is better than nothing.
This week, my 8 minute meditation is focussed on hearing the sounds around me. Not judging them, just listening to them. I am finding more space between my thoughts than last week. I'm probably getting about 20 seconds of pure meditation. Major improvement.
Any meditation is good meditation. The only bad meditation is no meditation. So, if I sit still for 8 minutes every day and have a thought fest going in my mind, it's still all good. Things will chill after a while, I can feel it.
I'm going to meditate on that right now. (You could see that one coming, right.)
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