One Minute Meditation

Who out there in Hampton Woods is busy? Raise your right hand. Who’s stressed? Raise your left hand. Now stretch your arms up above your head as far as you can stretch them and take a deep breath through your nostrils, feeling your abdomen extend. Now take another. And another. While you are stretching your arms up think about how the breath feels coming in through your nose, going down into your lungs and then being exhaled.

Now repeat.

Congrats! You just completed a one minute meditation. You feel at least a little bit better, don’t you? Your mind should be a tad bit clearer and you should feel slighty more focused. While some may argue that this isn’t a real meditation, but you can certainly enjoy the benefits of this stress relieveing technique. Everthing doesn’t have to be difficult or complex to be valuable. You have to take time for you. If you don’t you’ll make yourself nuts, stress out your heart and your immune system. And really folks, who needs that? Instead, just sit and be quiet for a second and be present in your own thoughts. It really works!