Too busy to meditate? Then you should definitely find time for meditation!
Wondering how the heck to find the time for meditation?
Here’s a quick 2 minute meditation – scientifically reported to help you to feel more relaxed and focused.
[Pssst…I’m sneaking you this 2 minute Meditation from inside my book Instant Calm!]
I love meditation.
It helps me to…
- calm my mind
- boost my creativity and productivity
- fall asleep
If you’ve been following my work, then you know I joyously studied to be a meditation (and yoga) teacher at Ishta Yoga.
Although I’ve always loved meditation, there were times I let my meditation pillow collect dust in the closet (aka: after my son was born).
I felt I was too busy to meditate.
I simply didn’t think I had time.
The ironic truth:
- Meditation doesn’t need to take up a lot of time.
- Meditation can actually give you back time.
Yep. Meditation can serve as a terrific time management tool!
When you meditate, you become able to think at your clearest, so you do work at a faster and more productive level.
Plus when your mind is clear, you don’t make as many sloppy mistakes. As a result, you don’t have to take time to re-do what you messed up.
Here’s a funny story from one of my favorite books – Steve Covey’s book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” – which explains why meditation is such a terrific time management tool.
“Seeing the saw”
There was this guy (GUY#1) who was sawing down a tree with a very long, dull saw.
Because his saw had a dull blade – it was taking him a very long, dull time to do his sawing work.
His friend (GUY#2) tried to get him to stop sawing – so he could sharpen his saw.
GUY#2 explained, “If you sharpen your saw, you’ll get done sooner!”
GUY#1 declined saying, “I can’t take the time to sharpen the saw. I’m too busy sawing the tree.”
Unfortunately, GUY#1 did not see what GUY#2 saw.
When you slow down to sharpen your saw, you save time – by improving how quickly and effectively you “saw” away at anything you might need to do!
Well, meditation is like sharpening that saw!
It sharpens your thinking!
Meditation helps you to…
- Sharpen up your mental, emotional and spiritual saws.
- Slow down and remember to live true to your core values.
- Better see how to turn your “to do list” into a “to do what matters most” list
- Keep your energy strong, your mind clear, and your soul in the driver’s seat.
So….how do you find time to meditate?
I personally love to do various 2-minute sensory meditations – where are based on using your 5 senses as grounding tools.
How Sensory Meditations Work:
- You focus your attention in a “one-pointed way” on one of your 5 senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, sound).
- Every time your busy chattering mind starts to gab its negativity, you redirect your attention back to this one-pointed sensory focus.
Example: Sensory Chocolate Meditation
I love doing 2 minute sensory meditations so much, that I even wrote a book called Instant Calm – sharing all my favorite sensory meditations.
Here’s A Sensory Taste Meditation from Instant Calm… all about chocolate.
Lucky you! I’m assigning you eating Dark Chocolate – not only because it’s such a huge attention-hogging Taste Sensation.
Dark Chocolate has been researched to reduce stress levels in the brain – and help you to feel more relaxed and focused.
Yep, dark chocolate helps boost…
- serotonin
- endorphin
- dopamine
All of these are great hormones for the lowering stress levels and improving feelings of calm.
Don’t like chocolate?
You can substitute in a spoonful of honey!
How to do this Sensory Taste Meditation
(This is a great relaxation tool if you think you’re too busy to meditate!)
- Take a nice one inch chunk of dark chocolate.
- Allow it to melt in your mouth ….slowwwwlllly.
- Resist chewing – and really savor the flavor.
- Stop thinking about all the things wrong in your life – and remain focused only on all the things right about chocolate!
- For 2 minutes straight – simply focus on the flavor in your mouth in a “one-pointed meditation concentration.”
- Every time your mind wanders to a stray thought, bring your mind back to the taste sensation party going on in your mouth.
Important Reminder
Doing a Chocolate Sensory Meditation is all about savoring the flavor – not binge-eating – which is the opposite of a Meditation.
When you binge-eat you basically do NOT taste the food. You inhale it.
When you meditate, you are truly savoring the flavor of the chocolate in your mouth.
Oh – and one more obvious reminder! Be sure to only do this Chocolate Sensory Meditation once a day – not a 100 times a day!
Create a regular meditation practice
Got 2 minutes?
If you think you’re too busy to meditate, then you will love all the many fun and quick 2 minute meditations inside Instant Calm!
My book is great for beginners to meditation – as well as advanced meditators – because there’s something for everyone.
If you’re committed to living your happiest and most successful life, I encourage you to check out all the many meditations inside Instant Calm!
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