Getting Started: Mindfulness Meditation Tips

Some “How To” Tips for Mindfulness Meditation


For the next several weeks you are invited and encouraged to practice the Body Scan Meditation with the disc once a day for the amount of time you are able (45, 30 or 15 minutes).

This is your homework or home-practice. Remember, it does not work to promote stress reduction if you do not do it. No guilt or blame, just non-judgmental fact.

Just simply returning to the “object of focus or attention or awareness”, in this case the sensations of the body, strengthens concentration and the positive effects of the meditation practice.

Remember Mindfulness is conscious moment – to – moment
non-judgmental awareness, cultivated by systematically paying attention in a particular way.

Mindfulness is about waking up to your life moment, by moment by moment…

Are you ready to practice Mindfulness?

What would support your readiness for practice?

Some examples might be things such as;

• Setting a regular daily time to practice

• Using guided instructions found on the internet.

• Start small with short periods of time and slowly build

• Ask for support of family, friends or other household members to assist you in creating the space, time, quiet etc.

• Invite family or friends to do it with you

• Give yourself a break if need be

AND most of all know that
There is more right with you than wrong with you