What can a daily meditation habit do for you?

If you are looking for one good habit to add to your life, try meditating regularly.

You’ll benefit in more ways than you might imagine from a daily meditation habit. A grounded meditation practice will help you to know who you are and where you are. If your daily routine has you going non-stop, while fueling yourself on caffeine, stress, guilt, worry, or some other toxic energy, your body and health will suffer.

You'll lose energy by treating yourself this way, and may find yourself in an ongoing state of fatigue. This will make it more difficult for you to create what you want. In order to create what you do want to have in your life, you need enough energy and space. Running yourself ragged depletes both, and if you feel this way, it's time to recharge.

There is never a bad time to begin to meditate, and every time you do it helps you to do it again.

If you practice grounding as part of your daily meditation, you have a way to release all of those toxic energies you’ve been taking on. This helps you regain your own space and energy. If you think you’re already too busy and don’t have the time to begin doing this, if you just can’t see adding one more thing to your list, consider this: the time you spend meditating will pay off in big ways, and in parts of your life you may not even imagine it doing so.

Meditation can help you to do the following:

Gain perspective, calm down, sleep better, let go, hear yourself, value your body, have more energy, heal yourself, think more clearly, create your new creations, manifest, let go of pain, enjoy being in the moment, be able to be present, hear music clearly, have more fun.

A regular meditation practice helps you to come back to your senses, know yourself, give yourself permission to stop constantly doing, trust yourself, feel your feelings, know your own thoughts, ground yourself, communicate with the earth, become aware of your body, find peace within, relax, know what’s truly important to you.

You may not be aware of the vast riches to be found within yourself, until you begin looking for them.

Meditation is not perfect, doesn’t need to be practiced perfectly, and you don’t need to be perfect to practice it. All you need to do is start somewhere. Do it on your own, find a teacher, listen to a recording, create your own practice. There is no one right way to meditate. The trick is to begin.

• ©Kris Cahill
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