Our days, our work responsibilities, our lives can ask us to complete and achieve a variety of tasks. Meditation

asks nothing from us. Meditation is a place we provide for our mind to rest. When we sit for

however long we choose or are able to, to meditate, we are not asking our mind to do

anything. In fact, by being still, we encourage the mind to rest, to just be. In doing this, we are not

saying, as we have talked about before, that the mind is absent of thought,

but rather that it is able to be quiet and be at peace while being quiet. Instead of seeing

any thought and immediately engaging with it, instead, while we sit in this place of rest with our

mind, we observe it. That's it. No longer

getting caught up in our thought or letting our mind get in a tangle. For the few minutes that

we are meditating, we just observe. And that is how we let our mind be at peace and thus be a quiet mind.

Let's begin to breathe.

Find a comfortable place to rest.

Gently rest your gaze on a spot in front of you and start to breathe naturally.

Taking a deep breath in, letting it fill your being,

and then slowly letting it out through your mouth until it is entirely released. Keep breathing

naturally in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Hold your upper body upright roll the shoulders back.

Keep your eyelids soft.

Let open. but open as your breathing. As your breathing,

should have thought arise

of feeling dance across in front of your mind

trying to grab your attention,

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