EPISODE 8 | Meditation ain't sitting in a corner for hours

When you've got a Conscious Brain that spends 99.9% of it's life screaming at you (I could hear mine literally SCREAMING at me some days!), sitting 
"silently" was the most horrible idea I could concieve. Being left alone, with only the chaos inside my brain for company?! "NO THANK YOU!" Although that didn't stop me from trying... I hated the way that I was living my life and I felt POWERLESS to do anything about it (despite doing all of the things that "should" have been imporving my life - therapy...meditating for hours...!) That's when I realised that there was a REALLY different way to do meditation. A way which 10x results but didn't take time away from my life - I was a new mum to baby twins, my husband worked away and I was a primary school teacher (I had a LOT going on!!). My meditation was this - to do things for longer than my brain wanted me to. And by this I mean... When I was rushing to get the bottles steralised, so I could get my school work done, so I could get to bed at a decent time before Groundhog day started all over again, I TOOK MY TIME! I washed those bottles like my life depended on it - I traced the outline of the bottles with my fingers and watched the soap bubbles pop on them I did my school work with clamness and precision I stopped being so obsessed on what time I was getting into bed, and started feeling grateful to have arrived In my life, I started to walk slower than I would (I literally RAN through the hallways at school before) I sat for a minute longer when my brain said to "get up!" I realised how much of my life my brain was making me rush through - taking my time became a meditation in itself - SO much better than sitting for hours at a time. SO. Much. Better!!