It Takes Less than a Few Seconds to Start the Day Right
How 5 minutes of meditation help you start the day
In the past weeks, I’ve meditated almost daily in the morning when I found time. It helps you start the day with more calmness and not get lost in the rush. This is what’s known as mindful meditation. And it goes like this:
You breathe slowly and focus your attention entirely on your breath.
And that's it! Nothing voodoo or mystical as you might have thought! The perception we’ve created about meditation being this weird and dumb practice only monks living in the depths of the mountains do, is wrong.
This is rather an act every human being can adopt for a healthy and conscious lifestyle. Even though you can extend the practice by adding affirmations and visualizations, this is enough to start the day.
The one thing separating us from a mindful life
You see. There are tons of practices out there following meditation that we can’t benefit from because we’re too proud to try them in the first place. It’s absurd how much pride we have in feeding our reputation and ego with this “this-is-not-for-me” nonsense bullshit.
Before trying meditation, I thought the same thing, to be honest. I thought it was only for those monks living in Asia inside monasteries, whose image doesn’t match with the one we have for the modern human. We’d rather take as a role model someone in suits and ties, flashing money around and telling us how this is the next big thing that’s going to make us healthier. That’s the only way for us to be convinced to try something.
However, it’s not our fault since this is what we’re taught to value. For me, if it wasn’t for Jurgen Shperdhea and other friends of mine who practice meditation I would have never been convinced to try it either. Even though deep down, I know it was something magical, I was afraid of feeling stupid.
Why don’t you try it yourself?
Have you noticed how people create an opinion about practices or events without trying them at least once in the first place? Sometimes we create strong opinions on food, new apps and even learning methods without even attempting to try them at least once. Hello, pure ignorance!
Sure that this is true for things outside our reach. We cannot try to operate on a person to see if we’re fit to be surgeons. We cannot ‘try’ to drive a car in the middle of the highway to see if we’re able to do it.
But we can try to sit still for at least five minutes each morning, close our eyes and focus on our breath. A good life is pretty simple. You just have to breathe!
