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  1. A Quick and Simple 5-Minute Meditation By Kim Anderson This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA.

  2. Set Aside Time • Set a timer for five minutes, so you can relax and not worry about staying in meditation for ‘too long’, missing appointments. (If you have an iPhone, the Healing Music application can be used as a timer, though the regular timer that comes with most phones can also be useful.)

  3. Relax Your Body • Just close your eyes and relax. Take a few deep breaths from your diaphragm and release the tension in your body. Focus on a five-count breath: • Slowly inhale from the belly • Then into ribs • Then into chest • Up into crown of the head • Then gently hold the breath for the fifth count • Reverse this process on the exhale for another count of five, exhaling from the crown, chest, ribs, belly, pausing on the last bit of breath out of the body, and then begin again. • Try to visualize the tension leaving your body from your head to your feet, either as imagining that the stress is literally draining from you through your toes, escaping your body with every breath, or simply melting away. • Concentrating on your breath while you are imagining releasing your stress and tension helps give you something to focus on while also reaping the potent benefit of deep breaths.

  4. Focus Your Mind • When you work on clearing your mind of thoughts, rather than focusing on ‘thinking of nothing’, focus on ‘being’, and when thoughts enter your mind, gently acknowledge them and let them go, returning your focus to the present moment again. If you focus on how well you are doing this, that becomes the focus.  • If you accept that constantly bringing your mind back to the present moment is the meditation, it will be much easier to keep your mind still.

  5. Keep Going • Continue this for five minutes, and return to your day feeling more relaxed and refreshed. Simply focus on the sensations you are feeling in your body, focus on your breath, or focus on letting go. Try this meditation regularly, and you should feel less stressed overall.

  6. Tips • Here are a few additional tips that will help you make the most of your meditation time. • Be sure you’re in a comfortable position; little nagging discomforts like scratchy clothes or an awkward sitting position can be a distraction from meditation. • Try not to get too focused on whether or not you’re ‘doing it right’. (This can actually make meditation more stressful!) Thoughts may often enter your head; the process of redirecting your focus to the present moment is where the benefit comes. • Play meditation music or use aromatherapy to enhance your practice. They aren’t necessary, but they can add to your experience if you can conveniently incorporate them. • Practice frequent meditation as a wonderful and effective stress management tool. Meditation has been used for both short-term calming (it can reverse your stress response pretty quickly) and long-term resilience (regular practice can help you become less reactive to stress), • Try to fit in longer meditation sessions (like 20 minutes or more) a few times per week for best results. Then, you will be more practiced with meditation in general, and these 5-minute sessions will have more of an impact when you need them!

  7. For more information go to • https://www.facebook.com/Motivational-piece-by-kim-Anderson-from-Sault-Ste-Marie-115693037225458/?ref=pages_you_manage

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