A Peaceful Mind

When you meditate, you’re generating higher alpha and theta brainwave signals, which helps stimulate the pre-frontal cortex in the brain which improves your mood, decreases pain, incites relaxation, and boosts the immune system. By simply closing your eyes, even when you’re awake and not meditating, your brain slows down be in a relaxed, non-aroused state of mind.

Although you cannot always control the mind, you can encourage it to be more at ease. Learning to do this will help you respond rather than react to your thoughts and emotions. “May my mind be at ease. May I be at ease with my mind.”

Gentle, quiet, patient, steady, spacious and at ease. When you and reality are no longer battling, reality no longer has to defend itself.

Inhale and exhale with ease to build embodied awareness, a sense of confidence and also kindness for ourselves and others.

As you settle in, allow your eyes to close and your breath is slow, slowing the mind down too. Grateful for your mind, body, and this opportunity to rest.

This is a 5-minute breathing space practice that you can use anytime, anywhere to regain calm, clarity and confidence.

Using mindfulness of the senses, feeling tones, and your overall experience in the present moment, this is a practice in true open awareness.

Inhale. Exhale. Grateful for the moment from the center of the heart.

Give yourself permission to do nothing. Give yourself permission to embrace this moments of stillness in which there’s nothing at all that needs to be done. Stay relatively still and watch the breath.

Practice stilling the mind to help settle yourself back into calm awareness. “May my mind be at ease.” & “May I be at ease with my mind.” If the mind wanders off, just notice it is doing so and gently bring it back to the present moment.

Practice whole body breathing. As you breathe in, imagine that your whole body is breathing in. As you breathe out, imagine that your whole body is breathing out. Stay in the moment.

By feeling your body and connecting to it with your mind, you create a unity between the body and mind which generates deep relaxation and a state of creativity. It is then that we can pull our goals towards us with the universal energy that flows through everything. Complete the practice with creating two goals that you want to accomplish in the next 2 to 3 months & 2 to 3 years.

Be aware of your senses. When you do notice you are feeling overwhelmed, you can use this exercise to bring yourself back to the here and now.

You deserve this wonderful feeling of serenity. Let another breath come in naturally imagining a bright future, and as you let it go, notice how anxiety eases and fades.

Picture your strong self handling a difficult situation with complete kindness, care, mindfulness, patience and wisdom. When you begin doubting yourself, return back to the strong you. Allow yourself to feel confident. Reconnect with your intentions of wisdom and compassion in the face of difficulties. And remember to breathe!

Thoughts are part of everyone’s human experience. You don’t need to push them away in order to practice - learning to bring your mind back from its thoughts is the practice. This exercise offers a way to “unhook” yourself from those thoughts and simply let them be.

Taking 5 minutes every day to yourself and practicing mindfulness techniques will allow you to work through the problems you face such as stress, lack of confidence, procrastination, fear of failure and more.