I love this! Reminds me of the art of titration! Last month, my spiritual coach/meditation teacher encouraged me to start meditating for five minutes a day for a week. After that, I could build up to 10 minutes a day. The intention with all of this was to create a new habit based on the knowingness that five minutes was enough. And I love this for you: one sentence was enough. And it got the momentum going!
True, I had to build up my meditation practice that way too. I can go 20 minutes now. Though sometimes I fall out of practice and need to start again with 10 or 15 minutes.
Cool. Bet it’s interesting to see how quickly those meditation muscles can atrophy?! 😂 For me, limiting the meditation to five minutes was more a practice of embracing the enoughness of five minutes. It was a very worthy experiment!
I love this! Reminds me of the art of titration! Last month, my spiritual coach/meditation teacher encouraged me to start meditating for five minutes a day for a week. After that, I could build up to 10 minutes a day. The intention with all of this was to create a new habit based on the knowingness that five minutes was enough. And I love this for you: one sentence was enough. And it got the momentum going!
True, I had to build up my meditation practice that way too. I can go 20 minutes now. Though sometimes I fall out of practice and need to start again with 10 or 15 minutes.
Cool. Bet it’s interesting to see how quickly those meditation muscles can atrophy?! 😂 For me, limiting the meditation to five minutes was more a practice of embracing the enoughness of five minutes. It was a very worthy experiment!
I love this!
So glad you found your momentum Zara. Looking forward to reading your posts.