Meditation in New York Minute
Our lives are so super busy these days, with constant office meetings, kids soccer practices, spring breaks, school work, deadlines…aaaaaaaaaaahhh!!! I know you know what I’m talking baout. Anyhow, we still need to take time to relax, even if it’s for short time. I found a blog that I wanted to share with you that talks about a couple of discs done to help you with meditating through a simple CD.
Meditiation in a New York Minute
Mark Thornton
With his chipper Australian accent, meditation instructor Mark Thornton may not be the voice you instantly associate with New York minutes, but then again, New York is an international city, and stress and anxiety are universal. More importantly, Thornton possesses a laser-precise grasp of modern spiritual dysfunction. Understanding that the average person on the go may not be able to readily carve out an hour a day to practice meditation, Thornton has devised numerous meditation exercises that can be done on the run, making Meditation in a New York Minute more than live up to its claim.
The first disc introduces Thornton’s strategies for overcoming the difficulties of meditation practice. “Meditating for the first time,” Thornton notes, “is like sticking your head in a river full of thoughts.” It’s okay to be distracted, but “what you don’t want to do is to start to talk to yourself about the distraction.” Thornton encourages you to bear that in mind, and when you notice you’ve gone off-track just “Be aware of it and return to your practice.” He encourages us to amass a whole coterie of techniques rather than relying on just one method, and to try and meditate for longer periods, noting: “It’s a mathematical connection.” If we learn to be able to return to our practice without judgment or self-criticism, over and over again, our ability to meditate cannot help but increase.
The exercises on disc two include “Body Awareness,” the “Calm Commute,” “White Light,” “Total Awareness at the Gym,” “Magnifying Heart Energy,” “Magnifying Wisdom,” and learning to “See the Good in All People” (“I connect to the God within you.”) Mark Thornton encourages us not only to try and visualize the feeling of what all this would be like, but to accomplish this while remembering to keep breathing from the belly. “Visualization is instant and automatic. It’s lightning fast, so you don’t need to spend 20 minutes doing this.” With Thornton’s help, the basic tenets of meditation and visualization will be at your disposal throughout the day, accessible in a matter of seconds. Rome — or New York — wasn’t built in a minute, but those ancestors of ours didn’t have to deal with daily media bombardment and ever-escalating technological dependence. Whatever your level of distraction, Meditation in a New York Minute will bring you back to a level of timeless awareness, ! where you won’t have to deal with it either, until that minute is up and you’re ready to dive back into the fray.
So, maybe this helps you try to fit in a little bit of relaxation during your busy day!
Thanks
Tiffany
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