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Notice Your Body
You can sit in a chair with your feet on the floor, you can sit loosely cross-legged, in lotus posture, you can kneel—all are fine. Just make sure you are stable and in a position you can stay in for a while.
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What You Need To Know Before Practicing Mindfulness
- You don't need to buy anything
- It is impossible to quiet your mind
- You have to expect that your mind will wander.
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Notice When Your Mind Has Wandered
Inevitably, your attention will leave the sensations of the breath and wander to other places. When you get around to noticing this—in a few seconds, a minute, five minutes—simply return your attention to the breath.
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Be Kind To Your Wandering Mind
Don’t judge yourself or obsess over the content of the thoughts you find yourself lost in. Just come back.
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Set a time limit.
If you’re just beginning, it can help to choose a short time, such as 5 or 10 minutes.
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What Is Mindfulness
We all have a natural quality called mindfulness. It’s available to us in every moment if we take the time to appreciate it. Practicing mindfulness is practicing the art of creating space for ourselves—space to think, space to breathe, space between ourselves and our reactions.
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How Do You Practice Mindfulness
While mindfulness might seem simple, it’s not necessarily all that easy. You have to make time every day to just keep doing it. Here are short steps to practice mindfulness
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How to Sit
If you can sit on the floor, have blankets or a cushion to sit on.
Try a cross-legged position like sukasana. If cross-legged isn't comfortable, try virasana. If you can't sit on the floor, that's fine too. Find a chair where you can sit up straight with both your...
Be comfortable in a quiet place
To get started, it doesn't matter whether you sit or lay down as long as you are comfortable.
You can sit cross-legged, on the floor, or on a chair. Then have the palms of your hands face the sky.
Don’t get caught up in the how
Start just by sitting on a chair, or on your couch. Or on your bed. If you’re comfortable on the ground, sit cross-legged. It’s just for two minutes at first anyway, so just sit. Later you can worry about optimizing it.
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