How to Start Your Day with Meditation
Some people find the morning to be a good opportunity for practice, before the sounds of the day begin to creep in: the newspaper delivery, the garbage truck, the drip of coffee brewing or bacon beginning to fry.
Mindfulness meditation gives us a time in our lives when we can suspend judgment and unleash our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness—to ourselves and others.
While you can reap the benefits of mindfulness meditation any time of day, the morning offers a calm, quiet time to focus on your practice. When we’re mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind, and increase our attention to others’ well-being. Here are five reasons to meditate in the morning or otherwise.
Understand your pain. Pain is a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to rule you. Mindfulness can help you reshape your relationship with mental and physical pain.
Connect better. Ever find yourself staring blankly at a friend, lover, child, and you’ve no idea what they’re saying? Mindfulness helps you give them your full attention.
Lower stress. There’s lots of evidence these days that excess stress causes lots of illnesses and makes other illnesses worse. Mindfulness decreases stress.
Focus your mind. It can be frustrating to have our mind stray off what we’re doing and be pulled in six directions. Meditation hones our innate ability to focus.
Reduce brain chatter. The nattering, chattering voice in our head seems to never leave us alone. Isn’t it time we gave it a little break?
We meditate to cultivate a different relationship with our inevitable human suffering, but it isn’t always easy or pleasant. The present moment can take so many forms, including difficult ones, but you can’t be any other place than where you actually are.
Reference:
https://www.mindful.org/how-to-start-your-day-with-meditation/