Meditation Mountain - 15 Minute Mindfulness Meditation ~ How to be Present

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

During this mindfulness meditation we'll be spending 15 minutes of guided meditation focusing on how to be present. Letting go of negative emotions and concentrating on how to be mindful. Mindfulness is becoming a more popular subject. With the rise in mental health awareness, becoming more mindful is a way of increasing our own self-awareness in every day life. You don't need to have anxiety, depression or other mental health concerns in order to practice mindfulness. Those that want to become more mindful in their lives do so for a variety of reasons, not least of which include increasing their positive energy and internal happiness.  Following a guided meditation for mindfulness is one of the fastest and easiest ways to be more present and mindful day by day and moment to moment. What mindfulness meditation does is allows you a few uninterrupted minutes of peace inside your own head to check in with yourself. Some guided time walking through your body and mind to see how everything is. Being present enough to follow a mindful meditation practice will in time help you find a small corner of calm within your own mind whenever you may need it.  Mindfulness meditations have lots of benefits. They can reduce anxiety, limit your overthinking and relieve stress sometimes on a large scale. But these meditations have one main goal. That goal is for you to become more self-aware. To increase your ability to look at your mind, your body and your life from outside your own head. Becoming more self-aware means that you're able to look at all the good and bad in your life and accept it, without judgement, knowing that you're doing your best and becoming more mindful of everything is only going to help you do better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Meditation Mountain. And this guided meditation on mindfulness, Mindfulness can be achieved anywhere at any time. It is something that we must practice throughout the day if we want to develop our ability to focus and achieve our desires. For this meditation, feel free to close your eyes so you are able to fully imagine and focus on this mindful practice today. When practicing mindfulness while you are walking, this means you are fully focused on walking

and not doing anything else. You become mindful and aware of every step you take. Perhaps you can even say in your head, left step, right step. Or you can feel your feet, touch the ground with each step. Each time you lose focus of walking mindfully. Return your concentration on. your steps again when eating. Be mindful of each bite you take. You can count how many times you chew before swallowing, knowing that chewing is the first step of digestion. So, you make sure to Chew thoroughly and mindfully.

Each time you lose your focus, return your focus to mindfully eating. The goal of mindfulness is returning your concentration when it is pulled away from you. The objective is noticing when your thoughts have strayed and training them to come back to the present moment. It is impossible to remain thoughtless, but you can consciously stop your thoughts at any time.

Doing so gently. and without judgment. Let your body relax a little and take a nice, deep and full breath in, and slowly let it go. Gently, open your eyes, gaze around the room, not looking at any one thing in particular for too long.

And try not to look at the same thing twice. Allow your eyes to find a spot somewhere in front of you to fixate on. Gaze at this point and don't look anywhere else. Begin to observe how your mind might provide many reasons to look away and distracting thoughts entice you to look around instead of focusing on one spot.

But you are in control by keeping your gaze still and calm. You are practicing correct mindfulness of the present moment. Notice how your eyes, just naturally want to move and look around. And it takes a little effort to keep them at one point. Gaze at this point of focus for one minute now, observing your thoughts. Allow your eyes to close and feel the relaxing sensation.

in your eyelids of healthy discipline and accomplishment. Notice your thoughts right now. What kind of thoughts are coming into your mind. Now let's do some mindful listening. Let all of your focus go towards. your hearing and let go of any need to do anything besides observing sounds around you. Pay attention to all of the little sounds around you now. You might notice that you didn't hear some sounds before.

that you can hear now. Notice any hums of electric things and the sound of your breathing. Now, notice and observe the loudest sounds right now. Pay attention to the most obvious sounds reaching you. Thoughts may come and grasp, and grasp your attention away. And this is completely normal. Gently and proudly, bring yourself back

into hearing the sounds around you. No need to put any labels on anything. But it's okay if you do. Just observe what you hear. Even my voice is just another sound. All sounds come and go are only held by the moment. See if you can let all the sounds come in at the same time. Let them flow into your ears like a composition.

Now we are going to practice one more mindfulness technique. If you don't fully understand, no problem. But if you do, even better, become aware of the silence. beneath the sounds. It is always present underneath the sounds. It's kind of like the canvas that the artist paints on. And the paint represents sound. The canvas is always beneath, no matter how much paint is

is on top. The silence is the constant and the sound is the passing moments. You learned many techniques in mindfulness today. So practice them whenever you can

and feel the peace of mind gained from the power of focused concentration. Whenever you are ready, open your eyes, more mindful and more present. Thank you for joining me. This concludes our meditation today.