Meditation doesn’t have to be difficult! It can be as easy as hitting the Pause button in your life, whenever you need a moment to regroup and restart. Meditation can be done while sitting while standing while walking, even while lying down. Serenity Pause is a program to help you integrate meditation and mindfulness into everyday life. In fact, to get started here is a simple meditation you can do anytime you just have 5 minutes (The acronym is P.E.A.C.E. and this exercise was featured in Real Simple Magazine (https://www.realsimple.com/
1. Prepare: Find a quiet area (or put on your headphones when you can), sit comfortably in a chair and give yourself permission to do nothing for 5 minutes. Set a timer for 5 minutes so no worries about timing.
2. Exhale: Take a few slow deep breaths, inhaling to a count of four and exhaling to a count of six.
3. Allow: Allow your breath to find its natural rhythm. Imagine relaxing into the simple awareness of breathing.
4. Concentrate: Focus on the sensation of breathing. If thoughts or feelings arise, offer yourself compassion and imagine all the thoughts to be like clouds in the sky that float by. Return again and again to awareness of breathing.
5. Ease: After a few minutes, let go of your focus as you allow yourself to simply sit in your natural state. Nothing to do or undo, nothing to fix or to change, just sitting in awareness and ease. When the timer goes off, stand up and imagine taking that sense of ease with you wherever you go.
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Studying and practicing meditation and mindfulness can be very challenging.