Second Cup: Try bite-sized meditation

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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How even busy people can practice moments of calm

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0:00.0	13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction
0:05.3	podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.
0:08.2	If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.
0:11.3	Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.
0:14.9	Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.
0:18.4	How do you know? I'm innocent.
0:20.3	Are any of us truly innocent?
0:22.3	Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.
0:25.2	Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.8	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:41.6	Good morning. This is Laura.
0:45.2	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:48.3	Today's tip is to try bite-sized meditations.
0:53.2	Little three-minute spurts of mindfulness can change how we see the day.
0:59.7	Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from Melissa Stegenes' new book, Everyday Mindfulness.
1:06.5	This book features over 100 practices for building mindfulness into everyday life.
1:12.6	Tip number 51 is to meditate in small doses.
1:17.2	Often, people assume that meditation requires sitting still and monk-like for hours,
1:24.6	which, for most of us, is not going to happen.
1:28.8	By the time I have any extended period of quiet in my house, it's nighttime,
1:34.1	and if I try to close my eyes and sit in stillness, I will fall asleep.
1:39.6	But Melissa suggests that looking for three moments for a three-minute mini-meditation can work too.
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