Comments on: 5 mini mindfulness methods that you can do anywhere

By: Jay at Therapy Up North

Jay at Therapy Up North — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:02:06 +0000

nice article and good tips. i also like a quick traffic light meditation for when you get held up at a red light. apply the handbrake, take hands and feet off everything, stare at the red light and use the time to let go of any tension with a long, slow out breath.

By: Barbara A

Barbara A — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:10:25 +0000

I like the 5 minute meditation bites. I’ve suffered from anxiety for years and have used mindfulness as one of my healing tools.

By: Sean D

Sean D — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:32:13 +0000

number 3 is so interesting! i have a nervous habit of rubbing my hands together when i get stressed out… now i know why!

By: Safraz

Safraz — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:11:35 +0000

Whoa! Number 4 really helped me a lot! – I can;t believe I’ve been tunneling my vision with so much focus on the stressors.

By: Meg Bertini

Meg Bertini — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:26:22 +0000

Great list, and I’d never heard the peripheral vision one before! Excellent!

By: Dr. Sherri Greene

Dr. Sherri Greene — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:41:04 +0000

Great tips for all…Especially using peripheral vision,using it has the power to expand your consciousness as well as heightening your intuition!
Dr. Sherri

By: Fidelina

Fidelina — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:34:31 +0000

Love this article, and will be putting these tips to practice. Thanks! Hopefully one day I will master mediation :-)

By: MarkG

MarkG — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:36:30 +0000

Another wonderful brief instruction by WellandGoodnyc.com. I have been regularly meditating since 2001 and now I am also teaching mindfulness, meditation and stress reduction to medical and other health professions students, as well as to the general public. I can attest from my own personal experience that it is often very hard to form the habit of meditation and especially hard to do it for greater than 10 minutes every day. So I teach my students several tricks — some of which you’ve included here. I also urge them, when they are stressed to “take 5″, meaning to stop doing what they are doing. It can be for 5 seconds or 5 minutes. I encourage them to find a private space (such as a toilet stall) for that brief respite. In addition to breathing, I urge my students to borrow from the more advanced Tibetan Buddhist practice of Tonglen where they visualize seeing themselves as the stressed person. Then inhale the stress from that side of themselves and exhale comfort, ease and loving kindness to themselves. Breathing in this way for just a few seconds is remarkably healing.
MarkG