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Today’s #dailycalm session was all about #grounding. This is something I don’t do enough of, and need to come up with ways to do it more. 🦶 Yet another way that the modern world is failing our health is the shoe. And while I spend a lot of time talking about things like zero drop heels, and send soles for your shoes, sometimes even I wear shoes too often. It’s good for us to get outside and just let our feet touch the grass and dirt. Our bodies expect to be in touch with the natural energy of the earth. Magnetism and natural electricity are just two of those. And there are increasingly more studies about how such grounding helps with stress, PTSD, sleep efficacy, and a ton more. 🌳🌱 So today, make an effort to get outside barefoot and stand in the grass or dirt. See how you feel. Make a practice out of it-take a few minutes each day for a couple weeks to just be outside barefoot. See if you don’t feel better about the world in that time. And let me know how it goes. I’d love to hear. 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #meditation #meditationpractice #dailypractice #nature #anxietyrelief #meditatedaily #gooddecisions #mindfulness https://www.instagram.com/p/BzNZ10SAZFN/?igshid=hbktbwl2x32m

Today’s #dailycalm #meditation was titled #exhalation, but I’m calling it #letting_go. Because that is what we were doing: letting go of stuff we don’t want in our lives. 🖐🏻 It’s very easy to hold onto beliefs that don’t serve us, because we think that denying them is somehow some sort of failure of conscience. In politics, we have this dislike of politicians who change their minds, as an example. I’ll never forget a conversation I had during the George W. Bush versus John Kerry election. A friend of mine was haranguing Kerry for “waffling.” And my response was simply “I’d rather have a president change his mind than hold onto a bad policy out of ego.” I know it’s more comfortable to hold on to beliefs - we can have a lot of our identity wrapped up in them. But, if we want to change for the better, a lot of those non-serving beliefs have got to go, and we need to be mature enough to do so. There is no virtue in continuing to believe in something that is harming our goal achievement and our lives. So feel free to shake off those beliefs that aren’t helping us. Once they’re gone you won’t believe how much they were weighing you down. 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #lettinggo #dailypractice #meditatedaily #mindfulness #mindful #selfimprovementeveryday #realadulting https://www.instagram.com/mudlifecrisis/p/By2LXOXA5_7/?igshid=up9kfr6g3psv

More in dealing with strong emotions today in the #dailycalm #meditation. We learned about the acronym #SAIN. 🛑 S is for stop. When strong emotions wash over you, take a moment to pause what you’re doing in preparation for the next step. 🤲🏻 A is for allow. Those emotions are part of you. Don’t fight them, let them come into your life and do the job they’re there to do. 🔍 I is for investigate. What’s the reason behind those emotions?What triggered them? What makes them so strong? Is there something underlying them? Try to get to know them, deeply. ✋🏻 N is for non-identification. Just observe them. Realize that they are just a body process doing their job. In the same way that you are not your body, your emotions are not you. You are just a body of energy experiencing this existence, and your body, thoughts, and emotions are manifestations of this current existence. You are greater than all those things. You are eternal, not just this current blink of an eye in the cosmic timeline. 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #dailypractice #meditatedaily #mindfulness #emotionalintelligence #mindful #awareness #artoffear https://www.instagram.com/mudlifecrisis/p/Bymxhw7g9WE/?igshid=tisybojv8ly

Today’s #dailycalm #meditation was on the topic of #noproblem. This was mostly about the attitude one should take when experiencing meditation. 👍🏻 Many people, especially in our achievement based society, view meditation as something with a specific purpose and end-goal. They think the idea is to banish all thoughts from your mind while you’re practicing your meditation. And while that is an interesting concept and something to strive for, it’s not a reason to get frustrated and think you’re doing it wrong if you can’t accomplish that. Rather, one should take the attitude of meditation as exploring the mind, figuring out what that dude is up to. Instead of striving to get rid of every little thought, I understand that your mind is going to do what it does, and that really focusing on the breath after losing that concentration (which is going to happen, by the way) is the better way to handle it. Thus the concept of no problem. Yeah, you may have known several breaths without a stray thought coming into your mind, but the practice of getting back into emptiness in your mind after a stray thought is just as valuable as the constant teeth-gritting concentration. 👌🏻 Take your mental activity as a learning process each time. More scattered than yesterday? Ask yourself “What did you eat between your meditation sessions?” “What went on, how did you sleep?” Meditation can be a teaching tool all over the place, it’s the mindfulness that is the real end result you want. Not accomplishment. 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #dailypractice #meditatedaily #gooddecisions #mindfulness #awareness #alwayslearning #mindful https://www.instagram.com/mudlifecrisis/p/BykNqzegAfR/?igshid=1q60iys2xok5l

Loved today’s #dailycalm #meditation on the importance of #silence. 🤫 This is one that I always sort of knew, but never really quantified the importance of. But one of the reasons I get up in the mornings as early as I do-around 5 o’clock, March mornings-is that I like a period of silence to get my mind right before I start the day.And one of my favorite places in Columbus is downtown, a small park near my office that is simply space around a fountain. I like to go out there and just sit, and listen to the water. It’s coming down hard enough that you can’t hear the road noise just a few yards away, and that’s pretty awesome. I think of people who can’t exist without their headphones in, listening to music or whatever, and wonder how unexamined their lives really are. I also wonder if all the thoughts that they are muffling in their heads are going to come pouring back later in life, in a way that they are not prepared for. 👂🏻 As Depeche Mode sang: “Enjoy the Silence.” 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #meditate #dailypractice #meditatedaily #examinedlife #timetothinkaboutme #ponder #quietthemind #quietthemindandthesoulwillspeak https://www.instagram.com/mudlifecrisis/p/ByhollNgvh-/?igshid=uwibogu81dw5

Interesting #dailycalm #meditation today...the subject was #BeingEnough. And although I get the idea that you can be perfectly happy with a simple life and not being ambitious about the things you go after, there’s another side to that. 💪🏻 In the same way that we need to be aware that ambition for the sake of getting material things doesn’t always lead to happiness, we also need to be aware that ambition can be used to gain other things: like #time. I am perfectly OK with where I am in my life from a status and material things standpoint. I don’t need a whole lot. To be frank, I’ve got more crap in my house that I really need or ever use. On the other hand, I would absolutely love to have more time in my life. A little ambition toward gaining a lifestyle that would allow that increase in personal time would go a long way. ⏰ So let’s put it this way: I don’t necessarily think you shouldn’t be ambitious, but I do think your ambition doesn’t necessarily have to lead to higher status, but bigger promotions, or more stuff. Your ambition can simply be to have a life that is more under your own control and to have more time freedom. 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #dailypractice #anxietyrelief #meditatedaily #gooddecisions #ambition #timefreedom #goforwhatmakesyouhappy #pursuitofhappiness https://www.instagram.com/mudlifecrisis/p/ByZ4pXbgBiv/?igshid=1nreoh0is3c5v

Today’s #dailycalm meditation was about #karma. But karma isn’t a cosmic bank account like we think of it in the west. 🏦 Karma is the understanding that all of our actions have effects down the road. It’s really all about momentum. Our good actions have positive effects down the road, resulting in good habits and positive mindset. But our negative actions have a similar, opposite outcome. You may have heard of the advice to “never make a first exception.” That’s a brilliant example of karma at work. And meditation, as a mindfulness tool, keeps us aware of our actions and the possible outcomes they may have for us.It takes constant diligence to stay on top of our karma, but with a daily practice like meditation we can accomplish this. 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #meditation #dailypractice #meditatedaily #gooddecisions @calm #momentum #meditate #mindfulness #awareness #accentuatethepositive #eliminatethenegative https://www.instagram.com/mudlifecrisis/p/BySIwVoAm80/?igshid=phpc2ebuie0p

I am a big fan of today’s #dailycalm #meditation on the subject of #authenticity. I love the practice of continually looking at what we do to decide if it benefits us. And I think one of the most cowardly answers a person can give is “because we’ve always done it that way.” 🤔 Here’s the thing: we have so many habits in our lives that don’t serve us. But we don’t take the time to examine them to see if they actually benefit us. Sometimes that’s because we fear changing to something else. Sometimes we just don’t want to admit that we were wrong <cough cough politicians>. And sometimes...we’re simply not being #mindful enough about what we’re doing. We’re not letting our minds quiet enough to notice that our habits and decisions actually make sense and benefit us. Authenticity is related to mindfulness because it allows us to be who we truly are and make decisions based on that, instead of what outside forces want. 🧘🏼‍♂️ #meditatorsofinstagram #dailypractice #meditatedaily #mindfulness #awareness #habits #gooddecisions @calm https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx7ZUQSAOeN/?igshid=5v5fpfu5igku