 Regular meditation has so many mental, spiritual, emotional & physical benefits. A recent study took angiograms, the x-ray of arteries around the heart, which shows up the formation of blockages that cause heart attacks in their test subjects. They had them meditate every day & then they took angiograms again. Putting the videos side by side they showed that the constrictions had gone, the blood was flowing well to parts of the heart that blood flow had stopped to. Seeing this evidence was enough to convince me, or remind me, to meditate daily. Now I go through meditation phases and I don't know why I stop, because the personal benefits that I receive from daily meditations is immeasurable, but it seems I need to have reminders like this to get back on the meditation train.  I committed to meditate every day & I had the idea of doing it LIVE every day on my YouTube channel to invite you to meditate with me. I do it before I start work, which is at different times each day, but if you catch me live you can meditate with me or find the replay on my YouTube channel & meditate in your own time. I do it for about 30-60 minutes, but you can join in for 5, 10, 15, however long you want to. Please remember to click the like button on the videos & leave a comment, it helps the algorithm put me out there more! So many people tell me "I'm not good at meditation" and "I can't quiet my mind!" Firstly nobody is "good" at meditation, it is a practice of being present with all of the distractions, the thoughts, the feelings, the noises, the itches, that voice in our minds saying "stop meditating, go do something else" being present with that, knowing that it IS the human condition, we all have it & it's ok. In mediation we can be present with it & aware of it & accept it all. This is how we learn self-love through meditation too, it's ok to be human! Secondly, we all have a subconscious mind, nobodies mind is quiet! Our subconscious minds have a vital role to play in our wellbeing, it chirps on and on about danger, fear, negativity, to try to keep us safe. Meditation isn't about quieting the mind, although you might find the longer you meditate the quieter your mind is, you are not going to be able to force it to happen. It's about being present with it, noticing when the thoughts come up.  A practice I find helps with this presence is calling everything out, it helps to keep me in observer mode instead of getting caught up in the distractions. For example, my meditation might go something like this "thought, itch, noise, memory, ache, thought, noise, noise, what is that noise, thought, thought, thought, focus, feeling, thought, ..." on and on it goes. Generally around the 10 minute mark I feel my nervous system relax, around the 30 minute mark I can feel a euphoria that leads me to feel gratitude, but this doesn't happen every time & it NEVER happens if I am trying to make it happen... At no point am I trying to feel anything, trying to think anything, or trying to not think. I'm just bring present with whatever is going on inside & outside of me. Would you like to join me? Check it out on my YouTube channel here & let's meditate to gain all the many benefits of meditation, mind, body & spirit!
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