Technalink is committed to letting everyone cultivate a sense of mindfulness for both personal and professional development. However, in today’s working world, it can be extremely challenging to enjoy a long, sustained period of meditation in a setting filled with deadlines, meetings, and other scheduled events.
Fortunately, meditation is a supremely flexible and adaptable practice, and, like physical exercise, people can find many ways to incorporate it into a busy daily routine.
Long Is Not Required
While an ideal meditation session may take place in a quiet setting for several hours—as is the case in a dedicated meditation retreat—few people have this option. For many, it can be difficult to carve out even 30 straight minutes for mindfulness as many other things require attention both at home and at work.
However, the truth is that meditation does not have to be a long, uninterrupted session. In fact, for people who are just beginning, the daily recommended meditation duration is 20 minutes, and that doesn’t have to be in a single session either.
Some people may, in fact, find that, like learning to play a musical instrument or taking up a discipline like art or dance, meditation is best done in short sessions to get acclimated to it. Then, if desired, gradually build up to longer sessions or not at all.
Mindfulness, for example, may be a state that people find they can easily achieve for just a few minutes at a time, but not for 20 or 30 straight minutes. Instead of being frustrated and seeing this as an initial failure, it’s better to think of it as “building up stamina,” like a muscle that is growing and being developed.
Try meditating for just a few minutes at a time, in five- or ten-minute sessions. If it helps, you can even use different accessories as meditation aids. It’s important to find a time, style, and method that works for you, not the other way around.
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