Don’t allow yourself to think about what you want to achieve first thing in the morning, just get started doing it so you can’t psych yourself out of it.
Start with only 2 to 5 minutes. Set an alarm on your phone to remind you when it’s over. Just relax (no energy required) and focus on your breath. When your mind wanders, observe it and bring your focus back to your breath. When it starts tone easy, slowly increase by one or two minutes at a time.
Waking up earlier. Also realizing that mediation helps people find more meaning in their actions, it makes me hopeful that the same will apply to me as well.
At the beginning might be hard, I started by using fabulous 5 min meditation and it work wonders as it was embedded on my routine, then I jumped to other apps, and even though I don’t have it as a habit, my body and mind loves so much the feeling that it kind of asks for it now.
It took me about a year of of and on meditating. Then one day I just said I’m meditating fur as year straight and so far I’ve kept to that
Start small and make it a habit. Just a few deep mindfull breaths are enough. Once the habit is established you can expand on your meditation practice and take more time.
Waking up 10 minutes earlier doesn’t hurt. Add to your routine you will feel empowered and refreshed ready for the day ahead.
Don’t force it in the moorning, if you have more motivation agter a long day to relax and meet yourself, do it in the afternoon the benefits are the same.
I personally found time when I put meditation in my everyday schedule and routine, it’ll become something that you don’t want to skip never again. And the energy from the evening meditation, because you’ll have better sleep and won’t struggle to get up anymore
I try to change the way I look at it. I know that my day will go so much better if I do it. So I see it as an essential rather than optional chore. So it’s as important as having a shower, brushing my teeth etc and I make time for it, even if it’s only 20 mins.
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