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Witchy Tips: Meditation

Meditation IS:

✔️ A way to improve your focus and concentration

✔️ An excellent way to ground yourself

✔️ A good way to raise energy

✔️ An effective calming exercise

✔️ A method of strengthening your empathetic abilities

Meditation is NOT:

🚫 Thinking of nothing

🚫 Clearing your mind completely

Things you need to meditate:

✔️ Yourself

That’s it. You don’t need candles or crystals or a mantra or a yoga mat or a special outfit or anything.

You don’t even need to be able to do the thing where you cross your legs with your feet up on your thighs. You can meditate lying down, sitting up, kneeling, regular cross legged, or even standing. Just so you’re not in a position where you’ll lose circulation, you’ll be fine.

Kinds of meditation

Yup, there’s kinds. Lots of kinds. Way too many to list in this post. Do your research, find a kind that works for your needs. Practice a bunch of different ones! The kind I recommend for a beginner is called Mindfulness Meditation.

Mindful meditation is about staying in the present moment, rather than ruminating on the past or worrying about the future. Like any kind of meditation, it improves your focus and concentration. It’s also been shown to increase your empathic connection with the world around you. Once you achieve a mindful state, you can move into any other kind of meditation you want.

The guide below is for mindful meditation.

How to Meditate

1. Go to a quiet place and find a comfortable position that you can keep up for a few minutes without getting sore or losing your balance.
2. Close your eyes and begin breathing steadily through your nose.
3. Focus on your breath as it moves through your nose. Try to follow it from moment to moment, rather than lingering on a past sensation or anticipating a future one. The breath is dynamic; it moves with you through time. Try to synchronize your focus with your breath so that they both exist in the present moment.
4. When you have a feeling, an emotion, or a thought, acknowledge it, accept it, and then go back to focusing on your breath.
5. If you find you have become distracted, bring back your focus by counting to 10: each odd number is an inhale, while evens are exhales.

Do not be discouraged if you become distracted often; meditation is not something that comes naturally: it has to be practiced. The present moment is hard to hang on to, because it requires not hanging on to anything. The present moment is always slipping by, and it will take practice to teach your mind to acknowledge and dismiss each moment rather than trying to linger. Try aiming for one minute of focused meditation, and increase the time little by little as your concentration improves.

Eventually, you’ll be able to meditate in noisy places, with your eyes open, using focus tools like candles or crystals, you can start employing visualization or mantras if you want; the sky is the limit. But before you can do any of that, you have to be able to concentrate. Simple quiet, eyes-closed meditation that focuses on the breath is a good way to get you there.

Happy meditating!

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wordsnstuff:

• Set out an outfit every night for the next day. Even if you don’t think you’re going to get dressed or ready tomorrow, it’s there just in case. I always feel more productive when I actually get ready for the day.
  
• Create a ritual for yourself, turning the mundane, boring things into an event. Such as your skin care, your shower, your breakfast, the half hour before you go to sleep, the drive to work or school, etc.
  
• Find little ways to improve your day.
  
• Set your days up to be better. Clean your room in the morning to make sure you have a tidy space to come home to. Have a water bottle handy and full so you end up drinking enough water. Sprinkle some lavender essential oil on your sheets in the morning so you can come home and sleep in a relaxing comfy bed.
  
• Pamper yourself in little ways. Do a face mask once a week. Use that nice body butter. Get a pair of hotel slippers and a fluffy robe to wear in the mornings. 
  
• Find ways to incorporate things you like into tasks you don’t.
  
• Surround yourself with beautiful things and wonderful people.
  

I feel like some people (including me) need a reminder of this sometimes. Always make time to take care of yourselves, physically and mentally. 

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wordsnstuff:

• Set out an outfit every night for the next day. Even if you don’t think you’re going to get dressed or ready tomorrow, it’s there just in case. I always feel more productive when I actually get ready for the day.
  
• Create a ritual for yourself, turning the mundane, boring things into an event. Such as your skin care, your shower, your breakfast, the half hour before you go to sleep, the drive to work or school, etc.
  
• Find little ways to improve your day.
  
• Set your days up to be better. Clean your room in the morning to make sure you have a tidy space to come home to. Have a water bottle handy and full so you end up drinking enough water. Sprinkle some lavender essential oil on your sheets in the morning so you can come home and sleep in a relaxing comfy bed.
  
• Pamper yourself in little ways. Do a face mask once a week. Use that nice body butter. Get a pair of hotel slippers and a fluffy robe to wear in the mornings. 
  
• Find ways to incorporate things you like into tasks you don’t.
  
• Surround yourself with beautiful things and wonderful people.
  

I feel like some people (including me) need a reminder of this sometimes. Always make time to take care of yourselves, physically and mentally. 

(via floralwaterwitch)