The Power of Meditation

Meditation, gratitude, grounding and stillness are all daily practices. This is such a core part of my ‘self’, with years of practice, discipline and commitment to a still, positive and healthy mind, which has an impact on all areas of my life.

So many people say “I can’t meditate”. People also say “I can’t read” and I don’t think they realise how powerfully influential both practices can be.

We like to choose the easy version. The one that requires the least effort. We read about 105,000 words (23 per second) a day within 12 waking hours. Texts, news feeds, notifications, stories, we are reading and consuming so much more than we have the conscious awareness of. What if we worked toward lowering that atrocious ‘daily screen time’ number and fed our minds with direct words written by the most intelligent people in the world instead?

Meditation is a practice. If you don’t read for ten years and then pick up a book, you’re not going to be able to focus and take in the information first go. But if you read 5 pages a day, then 10, then a chapter each time, you’re going to make progress, you’re going to strengthen your mental focus and be able to consume the information. Meditation is the same. You’re not meant to get it first go. We’d all be zen as fuck if we could. Mental clarity is a reward for the discipline and effort you put into your mental health and wellbeing.

Some of the most successful entrepreneurs, CEO’s and business minded figures meditate every day. Tim Ferriss (author of The 4 Hour Work Week) interviewed 140 people at the top of their fields and said “Despite the fact that these are people from tennis to surfing to cryptocurrency to fill-in-the-blank, like any field you can possibly imagine — some type of morning mindfulness or meditation practice would span I'd say 90% of the respondents.” I have some friends with incredible businesses, making 80k per month at an incredibly young age (24), and meditation, visualisation, journaling are all key components for the start of their day. Insane inspiration flows through when you allow it.

Switch off that mind chatter, turn the TV off, put your phone onto do not disturb and leave it in another room, create space and you’ll soon see what deeper, creative, more potent thoughts and ideas are able to flow through to you. You create your own reality and this is the key to the start of it.

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