Monthly Archives: October 2014

“Nick, I’d really like to meditate more, but I just don’t have the time to sit everyday for 10 or 15 minutes. My life’s way too busy.”

I hear this one all the time from my students and I understand how difficult it can be to take time out for yourself. It can feel like you’re being selfish, like you can’t really justify it when there’s so many other things that need attending to. Jobs, kids, relationships, etc. Life can get really crazy!

Even if you’re convinced that meditation is a really good thing to do. That it can help you get some peace and calm in your hectic life, help you to relax and de-stress.

Even if you have a yearning to live more in the present moment and reconnect with your spiritual side, somehow meditation just never gets high enough on the list of priorities.

There’s an easy solution.

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We have a shiny new batch of meditators who are participating right now in the 7 Day Meditation Kickstart group. There are people from Canada, the United States, the UK, Australia and New Zealand!

Usually, a couple of days into the program, many of the group members find themselves struggling with the ever-present bugbear of meditation:

Thinking, thinking and still more thinking!

What to do with all those thoughts?

How to ever get to a place of calm and peace with all that racket going on up there?

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