The Simple Spirituality

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 18]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 18]

Meditating on Impermanence

Start by observing your breath.

Notice how each inhale and exhale is unique.

Feel the sensations around your nose, the expansion of your lungs, and the rise & fall of your abdomen. 🌬️

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 17]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 17]

Applying mindfulness to a difficult task.

As you come close to the end of these 21 days, let's begin applying the mindset to complex situations.

Choose a situation or a person difficult to deal with.

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A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind

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The Happiness Formula: How to Reclaim 47% of Your Joy

Harvard University conducted a study titled “A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind” where they analyzed a sample of 2250 adults to find a correlation between happiness and an attentive mind.

https://t.co/BOZlbANJnR

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 15]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 15]

Walking Meditation 🚶

The objective of meditation is to integrate the learning from focused sessions into other parts of our life.

Walking Meditation is the perfect bridge in between.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 14]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 14]

Resolve to push your limits today as we do a longer session.

Double the time that you have been practicing for the last two weeks.

If it was 5 mins - make it 10. If it was 10, make it 20.

We will focus on two meditation aspects.

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Another benefit of #Meditation:

It allows you to experience more out of life.

Attention is the currency that you create through a Meditation practice. And it carries over to other aspects of your life.

You can live more, enjoy more and achieve more with attention.

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Day 12 of 21 days to Mindful You

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 12]

Metta - Loving Kindness Meditation

Today, we will introduce a new practice.

Metta is simply wonderful to open up your Awareness to the world.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 11]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 11]

🧘‍♂️Notice your moods and emotions.

There is an old story where a student goes to a wise master, and pleads with him - "Master, I am so unhappy, give me a solution. "

The wise man says - "You are not unhappy. You are experiencing unhappy emotions and identifying with them. Just sit in meditation and observe them."

The student does as he is told. And pretty soon, the thoughts of unhappiness fade away, as all thoughts do.

He returns and exclaims, "Master - Thank you, I am so happy now."

The Master smiles and replies, "You are not happy. You are experiencing happy emotions."
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Our tendency to get identified with whatever we are feeling is the root cause of feeling miserable most of the time.

Today, as you practice - try to observe your emotions. Articulate and see them as yet another chain of thoughts.

Check if you are identifying with them. And if you are, try to take a step back into observing them.

Do they feel as powerful as they did a moment ago?

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 10]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 10]

Today, let's come back to the breath. But, with more Awareness.

In your usual position, close your eyes and start observing your inhale and exhale.

Pay careful attention to these three points:

1. Are you observing the breath, the moment it happens or are you waiting for it.

The feeling of waiting is just another thought, view it as such and Try to be as instantaneous in your observation as possible

2. While you are focusing on the breath, is your mind still wandering off to other thoughts.

Don't suppress them. Without dropping the anchor of breath, observe the thoughts as they float in and out.

3. Check the relation between the observer and the observed.

Where are you observing from? Remember the self-inquiry pointers from yesterday.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 9]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 9]

Getting a taste of Self-inquiry

With our attention slightly more refined since last week, let's do some self-inquiry practice today

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 9]

Getting a taste of Self-inquiry

With our attention slightly more refined since last week, let's do some self-inquiry practice today

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 8]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 8]

As we start on the 2nd week of our 3-week growth, spend some time reinforcing the #intention that you set on the first day.

This time, I want you to go a bit deeper than merely looking for benefits.

Answer these 3 questions for yourself.

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Build a consistent meditation habit

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Looking to build a consistent meditation practice? This is the Start Small Meditation Framework How to Build a Sustainable Meditation Practice and Overcome Obstacles

https://t.co/L68IwpFmh7

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 7]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 7]

On the final day of our 1st week of practice, let's change things up.

Borrowing a leaf out of Stoic practices, we will try Negative Visualisation today.

In other words, think about what could go wrong.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 6]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 6]

Mental noting is a mindfulness meditation technique where we try to label experiences as they arise.

It gives the mind an additional anchor, lowers distraction and grounds you into the practice.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 5]

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 5]

Incorporate sounds into your practice

After focusing on the breath for the previous days, let's point our awareness towards sounds.

Close your eyes, open up your awareness and mentally note what sounds are coming to you.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 4]

Opening your eyes

Let's try something new today. by meditating with our eyes open.

This might appear distracting, but it is the fastest way to incorporate meditation into rest of your day.

Sit in your usual posture but with eyes open.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 3]

Deepening our breath focus.

Today, let's go a step further in refining our attention.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 2]

Today, we start our first session.

We notice our breath.

Seems simple (and is!). But here are four tips to make it easier.

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21 Days to a #Mindful You [Day 1]

Set Your Intention.

Articulate it in your own words and then write it down.

This is how to do it.