Hey, it’s Anne with your Coaching on the Go.

There are lots of processes that people use to create.

Today I am going to talk with you about meditating.

There are lots of ways to meditate.

Sometimes I meditate while I’m running, exercising.

Sometimes I meditate right in the morning when I get up, before I even get out of bed.

I was listening to a podcast, and yesterday it was mentioned that one minute of meditating throughout the day does more than 20 minutes of meditating in the morning, that if you stop yourself at different times of the day and take a breath, stop everything and meditate for one minute, that has a powerful effect on your day.

You can change your momentum immediately.

What is it about meditation that is so powerful, and why are people talking about it so much?

If stops your mind, it stops all the chatter.

Over time as you practice it, you can just breathe, take one or two breaths, and be back to neutrality.

When you are in that place, your mind does something different, it opens.

Instead of staying right in ego, instead of proving itself right, it opens to possibility.

That is the point.

When you start meditating, it feels like all you get is chatter.

You keep thinking about things, working on solving problems, talking to yourself inside.

Over time, you can just be in a space where you are curious, and sensing. A

How to do that?

Well, as I meditate, sometimes my mind wants to take me to solve all sorts of problems and think about all sorts of things.

When I catch myself doing that, I simply just say, “Oh yeah, of course you’re thinking about that. Let’s go back to this open space. This space is just for you to relax your mind.”

I talk to myself about how that meditational space is a free spot, like you are playing a game, and you landed on the free space.

I have become one who basks in it.

If I find myself thinking about something intensely, I just bring myself back to the free space.

When I meditate for a longer period of time, near the end of the meditation I find myself coming up with lots of solutions, really beautiful solutions and creative ideas.

When that happens, I know that I’m in the channel of creativity where I love to go when I meditate.

All of a sudden I find myself with really incredible ideas.

That’s meditation.

I highly recommend it.

It’s a way to get into your authentic, creative conduit.

Another way you can add to that is putting your hand on your heart if you’re looking for answers.

In getting into a meditation practice, optimally in the morning for 15 and in the evening for 15, you clear out your mind at the end of the day so that you don’t wake up in the morning with the same thoughts you left with like, “Oh, where was I? Yes, I was struggling with this. I had a headache. I had a big day. I was overwhelmed.”

Instead, you wake up with clean space and a fresh start, and then meditate right away in the morning before your mind gets going.

It’s a good way to ensure that you are starting with clear space and peacefulness, excitement for the day.

Have a beautiful day.