Last week, I presented the “What’s On Your Plate?” Exercise and you looked at everything you have going on in your life — all the stuff that requires energy from you and everything that’s stressing you out.

Likely, you have a lot on your plate and maybe that exercise even left you feeling a little overwhelmed.

Well, I have good news for you. There’s a tool we’ve been practicing here a lot and that we will practice again today, which will help you reduce your stress and restore your energy.

Of course, I’m talking about Mindfulness.

As a reminder, mindfulness is a special way of paying attention to the present moment with a curious, kind, and non-judgmental attitude.

Now, of course, mindfulness is not going to magically fix your life so that you have abundant energy and everything is sunshine and rainbows for the rest of time.

But, a regular practice of mindfulness meditation definitely can calm you physically and mentally, allowing your body and mind a chance to recharge.

Let’s practice now so that you can experience this for yourself.

Hopefully you feel calmer and more restored. Notice what positive effects that meditation had on your mind and body. Maybe you feel a bit more relaxed and energized for the rest of your day.

The effects of mindfulness are immediate and cumulative. You benefit during the session and continue to benefit even when not actively practicing. As an example, I bet you sleep a little better tonight after practicing today which will help you restore your energy even more.

Next week we’ll explore more ways for you to re-energize yourself, but for today, I want to leave you with some guided mindfulness recordings to support your practice this week.

Build Your Mindfulness Practice

I’ve built up quite a library of mindfulness recordings that can support your practice. Here are some tracks to get you started…

Mindful Moment (6:54)

Mindful Moment (6:56)

Mindful Moment (7:22)

Mindfulness Meditation (12:06)

Mindful Breathing (12:20)

Mindfulness Practice (12:53)

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