#121 | 5-minute Mindfulness Meditation

Learning to use mindfulness meditation for stressful situations to create whole health in your life.

Five minutes can feel like a small amount of time, but the truth is, it is enough to complete a 5-minute meditation and set the tone for your day. We live in a world where constant busyness and distractions can become a norm for the Human. You can counteract that by taking a break with a 5-minute guided meditation, which provides an opportunity to reduce stress, increase focus and inspired productivity and improve mindfulness — enabling us to be more fully present throughout the rest of our activities.

It's really important to take five minutes as a short break for yourself during the day to pause and just let go of everything. Let's try this meditation to reconnect with awareness and to feel present. When we do that, we tend to feel a little calmer in the mind, and we're able to then carry that calmness and mindfulness into whatever we're doing.

The benefits of 5-minute guided meditation

Choosing to implement a 5-minute guided meditation into your daily routine is a great way to familiarize yourself with the simple act of sitting in stillness in the midst of your day-to-day responsibilities. Choosing to spend five minutes with your thought processes and breath can be as beneficial as choosing to go for a 5-minute walk, jog, or sprint. In fact, meditation has been called a push-up for the brain because of its ability to improve cognitive control and strengthen the brain’s fiber connections.

Five minutes spent practicing a guided meditation or unguided meditation is proven to improve focus, self-compassion, compassion, mood, immune function and quality of sleep. In fact, a 2018 study at the University of Surrey shows that the brains of meditators are less affected by negative feedback due to the altered levels of dopamine in the brain, because of regular meditation.

For those who are just starting their meditation journey, five minutes is a perfect amount of time to become comfortable in quietude and learn more about yourself. You might even find that after incorporating five minutes per day, you’d want to slowly increase your practice time as the weeks, months, and years go by. However, you will always know that when time constraints arise, five minutes is all you really need.

After you’ve tried a few 5-minute meditations, establishing a daily meditation practice can help you to begin unlocking even more benefits.

Tune in and begin your mindfulness meditation practice!