Meditation for Serenity 2021-2024! (tips, tricks & discussion/ 3 years running woot!)

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Ya that one made me cry too. When it told me to pic one thing I’m grateful for. I picked my daughter. I started crying :sob:
Powerful 8 minutes to start the day.
I hope I do it again tomorrow. :pray:t2::pray:t2::pray:t2:

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Doing 2 a days.
Morning

Afternoon.

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Did this one just now. I like the affirmations at the end. Very positive and uplifting. Have noticed alot of thoughts trying to bombard their way into my mind while doing this meditation but kept coming back to the breath

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I didn’t know where to put it, so I thought I’d put it here. My daughter and I are going for Zazen instruction on Saturday. It’s her birthday and she wants to spend it with me, which is very cool. We are going to follow it up with a vegan lunch (neither of us are vegan, she’s vegetarian) but the restaurant kicks ass.

I have wanted to go FOREVER and just couldn’t rally to go alone. So, I am excited!

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This is sooo exciting!! I have never heard of Zazen instruction but it sounds peaceful. Cant wait to hear about it :slight_smile:

Zazen is just basically sitting meditation but we get a brief history of Zen Buddhism and then I am not sure how the rest works. I will definitely post an update!

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Thank you for this one. Loved :heart: Loved :heart: It.
I can’t wait to do it tomorrow. I must confess. I couldn’t wait to share with you how much I liked it and you were distracting me :joy: :hugs:
I hopefully won’t be distracted by you tomorrow :laughing:

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Ur post totally made me smile! :smiley: I must have missed this notification as i dont recall getting one for ur post here, so I apologize my response was soo late. But Im so glad u loved it!! I actually didnt do a meditation today. Will have to squeeze one in before bed. Hope ur night has been good!

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Did this quick but very effective meditation just now thru my fitbit app. I needed some grounding and i needed to lose some anxiety over being at work.
No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future. I need to stay present in this moment :heartpulse:

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Sticking with this one for a second time. I got 4 mornings in a row of starting my day off with a meditation. I hope to continue.


No, I’m not starting a new counter :thinking:.
Yet :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Woke up at 4 couldn’t sleep.


This was good. It didn’t put me to sleep but I was able to sleep after :pray::pray::pray:

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I set an alarm on my phone for during the workday to take 2 five minute breaks and breathe with a brief meditation…… for today … May we be happy.

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I am on day 132 consecutive, I may have more if I counted my yoga practice and sunrises meditation in there. This is just using the app!!! I am proud.

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Woke up at 5 and did this while I was still in bed. I love this mantra. :heartbeat:

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Impressive streak you got there.
Atta girl.

I couldn’t sleep last night. Did this one.


It didn’t put me to sleep listening to it. Which is ok. But I slept great right after. And long.

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I really like yoga Nidra, and so do you. Hahah
:woman_in_lotus_position: :man_in_lotus_position:

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I guess I do. When I search for something and see a yoga Nidra one I been using it. Like last night.

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I was / am in AA for 4 years now but have kinda been letting it slip as I spend more and more time with Recovery Dharma …although for me I see the need for both programs for me… and working on healing trauma. But I was reading this and reminded what a beautiful meditation Just For Today is …

Just for Today I will try to live through this day only, not tackling my whole life problems at once. I can do something at this moment that would bother me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

Just for Today I will try to be happy realizing that my happiness does not depend on what others do or say, or what happens around me. Happiness is a result of being at peace with myself.

Just for Today I will try to adjust myself to what is and not force everything to adjust to my own desires. I will accept my family, friends, my business, my circumstances as they come.

Just for Today I will take care of my physical, intellectual, and spiritual health.

Just for Today I will do an act of service for someone else without being found out. If anyone finds out about it, it will not count. I will do at least one thing I do not want to do, and I will perform an act of love for my neighbor.

Just for Today I will try to go out of my way to be kind to someone I meet; I will be friendly and act appropriately, I will dress becomingly, talk low, be courteous and not critical, I will not try to control situations or other people.

Just for Today I will have a program. I may not follow it perfectly, but I will have it.

Just for Today I will stop saying, “if I had time.” I will never “find time” for anything. I will have to take time.

Just for Today I will make time to meditate and seek serenity, truth, and acceptance of myself and others.

Just for Today I shall be unafraid. Particularly, I shall be unafraid to be happy, to enjoy what is beautiful, and what is lovely in life.

Just for Today I will accept myself and live to the best of my ability.

Just for Today I choose to believe that I can live this one day.

May all of us be happy.

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This was nice. :heart: