Healthy Meditation

Healthy meditation is the practice of focusing your mind.  Evidence-based research as shown meditation benefits that include improved brain health, mental health, and physical health.

Meditation practices include many types of focus.  For example, you could focus on your breath, or on a candle, or on a mantra or biblical verse, or on muscular relaxation, or on movement (yoga, or tai chi).  But meditation can also include focusing on writing a poem, or drawing or painting, or sewing or woodwork, or walking in nature (forest bathing), etc.  

If you get distracted, push the reset button and refocus.

The idea is to focus your attention on now - not past events or future planning.  Put all of your attention on something in this moment.  We actually live in the present - the past is gone and the future is not here yet.  All we have is now.

Eckart Tolle dives into this concept with his book called The Power of Now.  

Heather from Inspirina can help you learn more about meditation if you are interested in learning more. 




Let food

be thy medicine, 

and medicine 

be thy food.  

~Hippocrates

DANDELION

Herb

Your word

is a lamp

to my feet

and a light

to my path.

~Psalm 119:105

ECHINACEA

Herb

The secret of health

for both mind and body

is not to mourn for the past,

worry about the future,

or anticipate troubles,

but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

~Buddha (paraphrased)

LAVENDER

Herb