HEALTH: START MEDITATION -- A TIMER CAN HELP

A Timer Can Help

Using a Meditation Timer

When you are first experimenting with meditation, you may only be able to clear your mind for 3 to 5 minutes at a time.

If you use this handy timer, you can build your meditation skills one minute at a time.

One method is to start with 3 minutes set the intention to sit quietly and do not entertain any thoughts.  When you make it a habit to take 6 deep breaths each time you start to quiet your mind.  This will be a signal to your body that you are ready to begin.

Close your eyes, you will see black.  Begin by visualizing a blank place on your forehead that you can use as a dark, empty room between your ears.  Simply set your intentions that you will not entertain any thoughts for 3 or so minutes.

No doubt a stray thought will enter your mind, but simply ignore it and gently usher it out your ears.  Visualize the thought drifting out one of your ears and don't stop to think about it.  When you will hear the sound of your timer, it does not indicate that you should sit up straight and go about your day, it is a gentle reminder that you have met your goal for quiet time.  The timer will remind you to wiggle your toes, begin to move and stretch and gently bring yourself back to awareness of the world out there waiting for you.  When you are ready, you will get back to your day more refreshed.

Increase your meditation time by one minute each time! There is relaxing meditation music online that you may want to play softly while you enjoy this time.

By the time you are up to 15 or 20 minutes -- 3 times a week, you will feel calm and peace as a part of your life.  Each person develops a long term meditation routine, but most people like to practice it daily shortly after they get up.

Experienced in meditation? You may want to set this timer for 20 or more minutes to remind you to get back to work or to get on with your day.  I guarantee meditation will help you stay focused and bring intuitive awareness to you. A meditation timer will help.

Take time out of your busy day for quiet time.

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Joy Harris

Success Coach

Copyright © 2019

HEALTH: TRY AN "ALLOWING" MEDITATION

Repeat “Allow” into a gentle wind.  One short and easy experience is to practice saying the word "allow" outside in nature.

                             Ohio Winter

I have enjoyed practicing this mediation outdoors many times.  Sit quietly.  When you hear the gentle sway of the tree treetops or any sound of the wind, repeat the word “allow, again allow, allow”.  

Allow is the only word you will think.  It keeps mundane thought from coming into your mind and welcomes the experience of allowing.

Ohio Spring

For that short period of meditation time, you are simply allowing the world to be.  

No judgment or corrections needed on your part, just allow.  

For now, it is what it is, and all is right from where you are seated.

Simply sit in nature and allow.  It helps you to calm down.  There is nothing so pressing right at that moment that you cannot take 10 minutes or so to feel the benefit of allowing.

Ohio Summer

“Even if you locked your keys in your car,

you are not going to do anything about it

for the next few minutes”.

Right Now, You Are Simply Going to Allow

Take your Self away

from the cares of the world.

Simply Allow.

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Allow ... Allow ... Allow ...

Allowing is a relaxation period.  It is nice to sit up straight but be comfortable.  

Remember it does no one good to be so rigid that you are afraid to move a muscle or cover your mouth when you cough.

Allow until you feel refreshed by the wind.

Let me know when you try this exercise of "Allowing"

Joy Harris

Success Coach

Copyright © 2019

HAPPINESS: Short Heartfelt Meditation

Happiness is contagious.

Some say they have experienced something “heartwarming” and that makes them happy.

Does the heart have the capacity to “warm up” or have its own feelings?

Modern science has proved that there is a healthy coherence between your brain and heart.  In fact, your heart has more capacity to produce feelings than your brain.  Your heart has the strongest electrical and magnetic fields in our body, even stronger than your brain.  Your heart and brain are in constant communication as your heart is sending signals to your brain to communicate with your body.

Our feelings and emotions are creating waves of energy that radiate to a field that is felt throughout our bodies and beyond.  They now have technology that can measure the field of energy around your heart which sends vibrations to your body, the whole room and can be felt all around the world.

A worthy life goal is to “let happiness in”.  Allowing happiness invites more happiness for you and the world.  It is contagious.

Science has identified brain-like cells that are concentrated in the heart that has been dubbed “the little brain in the heart”.  These cells in the heart can learn and think independently from the neurons in the brain and they can remember and communicate with us, even without the brain. 

We have been conditioned that only the brain communicates with us but we have learned that by harmonizing the heart and brain we are able to deeply feel compassion, display intuition, and process information more quickly.

Gandi said, “Happiness is when what you think and what you say, and what you do are in harmony”.

It is important to harmonize your heart and brain and it can be accomplished in 3 amazingly simple steps.  Find a comfortable chair and follow along: 

1. Bring your awareness to your heart.  This can be done by placing your hands in the middle of your chest with gentle pressure, using fingertips or palms, it does not matter.
2. Then slow down your breathing, then slower.  Breathe in through your nose and breathe out through your mouth.  (Taking about 6 deep breaths becomes a signal to your body that you are ready to get in touch with stillness.)  Then just breathe normally.
3. The next step is to spend a few minutes creating a deep a feeling in the center of your chest.  An example of a deep feeling is compassion, appreciation, gratitude or feeling deep care -- for yourself or others.  Choose one of these deep feelings or any combination of them.  Then return your awareness to your day.

These steps work together to create harmonization between your heart and your brain.  Practice it for a short time daily.  Repeating this exercise helps your overall happiness as it positively impacts aging and immune response along with overall healing.

Let me know your experience with this meditation in the comments below.

Joy Harris

Success Coach

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