8 types of meditation and mindfulness for daily life.

I believe you know ‘what is meditation and mindfulness‘ and it is needed, however, still it is hard to take some time in your daily routine. We are too busy to survive at the company and fulfill our responsibilities and duties at home and the workplace. Well, guess what? There are plenty of ways to sneak in a little control of your mind throughout your day!

Here are weekday life 8 tips that you can care for your mind for your mindfulness such as at the workplace and at home.

Right after wake up

Most people who do meditation, do it in the morning time before they start their day. If you wake up just five minutes earlier then you can also start your day special. Once you wake up, either you sit on or lie down on the bed take a moment to focus on your breathing. enjoy that quiet moment of the morning and focus on your mood today. Although it takes only 5 minutes, instead of just starting your day hectic, this quiet moment becomes a game changer for your day. It is because when your mind becomes more relaxed, you become more tolerant of others and are not easily embarrassed or worried when you see problems.

On your way to the job.

If you can’t wake up 5 minutes early or you are hectic for other family members or yourself to start your job, then you can do mindfulness on your way to work. Nothing special, when you drive to work, although it is the same routine that you do on weekdays, why don’t you start aware of surrounding factors, especially the weather? Just look around the view of nearby buildings or trees. Or just try to feel today’s weather with your eyes and skin, feel the warm and tender morning sunshine, if it is a cloudy or foggy day then just feel that moisture and colors. As you know weather is just a natural phenomenon. Do not get upset or feel bad about the weather, just accept today’s weather itself.

Mindfulness before you start your work.

Again, I believe you do not have time for relaxation when you driving because you are running late or you are still a beginner at driving, so you can’t focus on thinking about whether or yourself.

There is another moment when you can trim your mind. Instead of hurrying start working as soon as you sit down at work. just pause for 3~5 minutes and take a breather, make a plan for what you’re going to do, think about how valuable the work you are doing is to you, and then think to yourself, “I can do it.” I whisper and get to work.

Mindfulness with lunch.

Having meal moment also perfect timing for mindfulness. Think about yourself, when you have lunch how do you eat? do you eat with your colleague? Just stuffing food in your mouth to save time? Watching some video or checking email while eating?

You did a good job during the morning time by dealing with tasks, you deserve to enjoy your lunchtime. Instead of being distracted by the media, how about taking some time to focus on yourself or meals? It does not take much time. When you’re eating lunch, take a moment to truly savor your food. Firstly smell the food and try to image the taste of food. Once you put the food in your mouth, start chewing slowly and try to feel the flavor and texture of each ingredient. And then, take a moment to check in with yourself and see how you’re feeling. This series of steps only takes in few minutes, however doing this mindfulness, makes you enjoy lunchtime and gives you positive energy for the afternoon job. Even when you focus on the food and yourself, you can stop when you feel enough. This also helps you to maintain your body and prevents you to feel drowsy after eating.

Tea Time

There is another moment, you can care yourself. Most people drink something when they are working such as energy drinks, soft drinks or coffee. Instead, if drink these beverages why don’t you drink some hot tea?

When you drink hot tea, because of its temperature you can not just gulf it. You need to wait for to cool it down. During that time you can enjoy that moment too. Such as by carrying the teacup, you can feel the temperature on your hands and can enjoy their fragrance of aroma. By doing this, you can shortly remove your concern. Once it cools down sipping the tea, focus on the taste of the tea and try to feel how that tea goes to the throat.

Take a sip, let your worries fade away, and organize your minds slowly.

the Moment, on one’s way to go home.

After you wrap up your job, on your way back home you might be excited or already tired from today’s various tasks. Maybe it also a good idea, do not think anything just watch some videos on the subway or listening some favorite music when you drive.

But if you want to do some special things to on your routine, I want to recommend you to take some time for mindfulness. If you go home walking or ride a bicycle, then you can try to focus on the view or this time you can try to focus on your body such as when you step, or how your leg is moving. When you drive, you can try to enjoy the moment of driving or the scenery. I believe these jobs clear your bad mood.

Shower

Even the shower time after returning home can be transformed into meditation time. When you take the shower you can focus on the temperature of the water and the scent of soap or bodywash. You can also feel the texture of soap bubbles too. When you take a shower, your mind starts reviewing today. Of course, you will think about some mistakes that you made or a colleague that made me mad today. That is so natural. However, instead of focusing on that negative thought, just simply think it has already past, and believe I can do better tomorrow, how well did I today.

While taking a shower, you can shake off all the heavy and negative thoughts along with the dirt from your body. Although this is a short moment it makes you relax.

Before going to bed

Finally, before bed. This also perfect timing for mindfulness. When you lie down on the bed, take a few minutes to breathe deeply and imagine yourself floating in the sky. Let go of any worries and allow yourself to relax.

Careful, you do not think too much about what happened today or worry. Once you start thinking that makes you think and worry more. Do not take worry worry that much just try to relax.

Remember, you don’t need to set aside hours of your day to meditate. With just a few moments of mindfulness throughout your day, you can reduce stress and feel more optimistic and helpful to your brain. So take a deep breath, and enjoy the present moment!

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What is Meditation and Mindfulness?

When you heard ‘Meditation’, what do you imagine first based on those words?

Personally, I can match meditation with Monk and the movie ‘Doctor Stranger’ main character ‘ Dr. Strange’ who self-trains himself for a cure.

Usually, Meditation is a really static activity, it is easily considered old-fashioned fashion and not suitable for the current era that changes rapidly every day.

Surprisingly, meditation has many benefits to control yourself.

Benefit of meditation

Then how does meditation help control yourself? When you start medication, by closing your eyes, your brain is disconnected from the current environment that you faced before. Once you start deep breathing slowly, your brain starts to think and care about your body. For example, by taking deep breaths, your brain becomes refreshed and your heartbeat is slower.

The next step is to go into your mind. By doing meditation, you have some time to face yourself such as ‘what do you like..?’ or ‘what you want to do?’. Although it sounds really simple and common question, most people never answer this question. they just push it back to the future when they have free time. Once you keep asking yourself, some concern or problem that you have, you will get some clue of it too. As you see, meditation is a useful tool for protecting yourself from harsh real life.

What is Mindfulness ?

This consecutive job can be done by other behaviors such as focusing on playing an instrument or panting. I am sure you felt about it in your life. When you focus on some affair, that makes you forget your problem during that moments. Once you totally in that time, you mode filled with happy and motivated. This is called Mindfulness.

Mindfulness is the broader meaning of meditation. Some author( I am not sure author’s name) defined that ‘Mindfulness is the basic human ability to fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us’ from book ‘Your guide to meditation’.

Mindfulness is the thing that you protect your mind by doing some specific behavior. Although you do not recognize the concept of mindfulness, you did mindfulness( by doing your interested activities). Mindfulness can occur not only for passive behavior like closing your eyes and don’t do anything, instead, it can happen by drawing or listening to music.

In short, mindfulness and meditation are necessary too to treat your stress and worry. Why don’t you start from now? Here’s a tip and posture to how to apply on your life.

reference from

Definition of mindfulness – Your guide to meditation