5 Mindful Minutes

So I've been really bad about following the Move/Nourish/Believe blogger challenge. The "move" aspect of it wasn't easy because I don't have a lot of flexibility in my exercise schedule, and the "nourish" part of it...well, I have no excuses, just that it's hard for me to think only of myself when making food choices. Thus is family life. But this week's challenge is all about believing in yourself, and that's something I...something everyone, really...should absolutely have the time for in my day, in some way.

Yesterday's challenge was to spoil yourself, and I certainly did that by spending a lot of time on the couch (sick with a minor belly bug). Today's challenge is to find five mindful minutes of meditation.

Now, I'm not really one for meditation (per se). I can't sit silently for minutes, hours on end doing nothing but thinking. I get bored, I get lost. I turn into Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love:



I feel like I should be channeling my thoughts, "selecting" them...but I think about, well...decorating. Translation: Everything. But I guess that's what meditation is all about...losing yourself in a calming (albeit somewhat boring) peace and just letting the mind do its thing. But I guess I'm more of an on-the-go, whatever comes to me type of thinker. I do some of my best thinking while running, or cleaning...or even just driving. But maybe I really should start channeling those thoughts to better my mind and body. Or maybe I should at least do less planning and more thinking about what I have, what I can do, and what my life has given me so that I don't end each day feeling so exhausted and defeated by what I didn't manage to get done.

Wanna try it with me?

Five minutes, five thoughts. Maybe you do this at the end of your day, maybe you think about them here and there throughout. However you go about it, join me in trying to put a few zen-like moments back into your day. And hopefully, together, we'll learn to be better about dwelling on the things we have, the things that make us happy and healthy, versus the things we don't have or haven't done yet.

Question: Do you meditate? If so, how? If not, why?