Are Meditation and Mindfulness Parts of My Daily Practice?
As a therapist, especially as a therapist today, the use and practice of meditation and mindfulness seems to be the key. Whether you’re using DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) or not, people can’t stop talking about meditation and mindfulness. Meditation being the art of training mental awareness and attention to achieve a mentally clear, emotionally sound and calm state. And, mindfulness being the ability to sustain meta-awareness of the contents of one’s own mind in the present moment. But, do I, in my personal life, apply any of this?
I ABSOLUTELY DO, BUT HERE’S HOW:
I have been so into Manifestation Meditation lately, it’s not even funny.
This is not some fancy trend, it’s literally setting a full intention for your meditation focused on whatever you are currently working on including, excluding or discovering within your own life. For me, I’m in a season of manifesting my miracle. I can tell you that this is a BIG miracle and a BIG change for my life that I’m vividly visiting with each meditation and that I’m actively working at accomplishing within my day-to-day practice and work.
If you follow me on social media (which you should), then you’ve seen the little changes that I’m making. You’ve seen the oft-attempts to remain grounded each day, you’ve seen me in the gym working on my own peace (nothing new), and you’ve seen me posting a bit more positively — for example, I may stop to admire flowers but I never stop to pick them. But, this week, I did! We’re manifesting my miracle right now so anything good goes.
MAKE MEDITATION WORK FOR YOU
When I started trying to meditate, I totally thought that it was a crock of bull.
I didn’t like the idea of it, I didn’t like the stereotypes of it, and I didn’t like that people never mentioned that it doesn’t have to look exactly how they’re showing it. Meditation is specific to you because it’s for you! The issue is, this isn’t the message that’s sold with all of the social media posts, because the goal of that is always to make people want to do what the person that they’re watching is doing. The goal is never for the person watching and the “grain of salt” that we should be taking these posts with (but, for some reason, we’re not).
I had to search through a long list of options because my goal was finding the type of meditation that would work best for me. One day I was listening to an Audible book by therapist, Katherine Woodward Thomas and it hit me! The same way that she held group meetings for acccountability on envisioning and manifesting a miracle, so too could I! It was then that Manifestation Meditation and all of it’s glory became my jam.
Outside of this, however, I had to learn how long, at what time of the day, in what position, and where I would be able to meditate best. All of these things come into play when finding your own meditation groove so definitely spend time with yourself to figure out where this works best for you.
THE KEY TO MEDITATION IS TRULY GETTING OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY
In all honesty, the thing that stops those around me from being able to enjoy all that comes with meditation, especially meditation into adulthood, is legitimately themselves. They cannot get out of own way or of their own heads enough to get into their minds and into the present for a little while.
There’s such a freedom and a clarity that comes with that heightened ability to reach awareness on your own, in silence, and daily. There’s power in learning the most beneficial, to you, way to meditate and to use meditation.
As of late, I’ve truly been encouraging this to my clients and my readers are no different, so here I am encouraging you!
Have you been practicing the art of meditating lately? If so, what’s that look like for you?
Best,
Bree 🤍