Meditation has been gaining popularity over the past few years; here’s a list of reasons why you might consider trying it!

One might come to meditation to:

• Reduce stress
• Refine focus 🎯
• Reset the breath / nervous system
• Practice loving awareness 💞
• Enrich the breathing
• Experiment with self-discipline
• Build a sense of peace and calm 🕊️
• Take a pause from external stimuli
• Enjoy nature as it is
• Work the muscle of being present 🎁
• Hear the voice of the true self
• Meditate on a problem until the solution presents itself
• Practice the Witness Mindset – stepping back to view the bigger picture 👀
• Give yourself a physical time-out for an attitude adjustment / perspective shift (with loving kindness) ⏳
• Meditate on a list of reasons you are grateful
• Think on the traits you love about yourself – and which traits you want to lovingly release
• Just for the moment: Drop the shoulders, unclench the jaw, relax the forehead
• Improve one’s ability to act mindfully 🧠
• Gaze lovingly into the eyes of your partner, patiently making eye contact through the nervous giggles until you are simply looking with tenderness into the other’s “windows to the soul”
• Carve out a set moment in time to focus on just yourself
• pray as a form of meditation, conversing with a Bigger Spirit
• act as a microphone in a field, and just take in whatever noise is around – no judgement or labelling required 🎤
• watch the thought landscape today and maybe pick out a pattern – being lovingly curious about the self
• chant or practice affirmations / firing up the vocal chords and literally “vibing” differently
• move, taking a walk as one meditates, meditating as one flows through yoga, or goes on a run or lifts weights, dances, dips into somatic movement, intuitively stretching … the list goes on
• process grief, be it a loss of a loved one, a pet, a chapter in your life, an old version of you – just giving the time and space for “processing”
• learn about the self – “how do I feel, why do I think this way, where did I learn this?” (with love) 🤔
• relax deeply via Yoga Nidra / Guided Relaxation exercises
• write it out, in a meditative state – translating thoughts to paper for us visual organizers
• talk it out – whether on a voice note, with a friend over coffee, or in a therapist appointment – a meditation of sorts can take place here too 🗣️
• meditate via music, allowing the mind to relax and be guided softly
• relax the body and the mind before sleep 😴

This list is by no means exhaustive. There are so many reasons to meditate, and ways to do so!

I hope today’s blog post gave you a bigger picture on meditation and what it could look like in your life.

Meditation has been the heaviest hitter in my mental health toolbox, with the physical, mental, emotional & psychological benefits overflowing into the rest of my life.

Learning myself, with love, and evolving with myself – with love… has been incredibly transformative for me. Which is why I am so fired up to share this tool with you!!! 🙏

The Beginner Meditator Class launched on Sunday March 10th 2024. 🙌

The 10 minute class is short and sweet, walks you through the basics of a meditation practice and then ends with a brief guided meditation to practice my 3️⃣ simple steps to meditation.

Once you own the class, it’s yours for keeps – so you can revisit it again and again.

Thank you for joining me for another blog post this week.

Wishing you the loveliest of weekends.

With Love,

Esta