Meditation Made Easy


What is LivingMoments Meditation?
By Jim Collison
Author, Simply How to Meditate



Q. What is LivingMoments meditation?


LivingMoments meditation uses best features of several forms of meditation, making it more likely for beginners and for busy people to meditate and lessen their physical, mental, and emotional stress.


Think of LivingMoments meditation as mini-guided meditations you create for yourself, as you repeat and focus on them in your relaxing, calming moments.


In many of the exercises in my book, Simply How to Meditate, you recall best moments from your past and bring them into your present moments.


You bring Moments-in-Time into your present moments. You pull from your memory of past moments, and bring into your mind, snapshots (moments-in-time) of experiences when you were relaxed and calm. When you were happy, pleased, successful, on top of your game.


You turn these Moments-in-Time snapshots into mantras. (A mantra is a sound, word or phrase, even a brief sentence or two or three.) Then, in meditation you repeat them as you breathe slowly and deeply.


In other exercises in Simply How to Meditate, you plant Seed Thoughts for growth in your life into your subconscious mind. How? You compose your own positive affirmations for your own growth and success and repeat them in meditation.


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Q. Why the name LivingMoments?


The LivingMoments name tells you your moments and minutes alone in thought can be living moments. Moments and minutes alive with possibilities.


The name LivingMoments tells you your meditation practices can recharge your life, when you focus on positive thoughts and images one moment at a time.


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Q. How does LivingMoments meditation help you?


When you make LivingMoments meditation a habit, you strengthen your living well in every moment of your life.


In Simply How to Meditate, you’ll see brief explanations of more than a dozen health benefits you can experience when you meditate regularly. The three most important, I believe, are these: (1) You develop healthier breathing habits. Think of better breathing as the elixir of life for you. (2) You lessen your stress and anger responses to daily life challenges by boosting your vagus nerve tone. Your vagus nerve is one of the most important nerves in your body. (3) The length and quality of your sleep will improve.


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Q. Why do some people resist meditating?


Typical reasons people give when asked why they don’t meditate are:

(1) I don’t have time for meditating.

(2) Meditating is a waste of my time.

(3) Meditation is boring.

(4) Meditating is a religious thing and I’m just not into religion.


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Q. How does LivingMoments meditation overcome these objections?


1. Don’t have the time?

LivingMoments meditation introduces you to creating your own words and messages to mentally focus on in 1-, 2-, 3-minute segments...in up to 20- to 30-minute segments and longer. Very busy individuals learn they can carve out 2-minute and up to 5-minute segments through a busy day that total 20 minutes and more in a full day.


2. It’s a waste of time?

Actually, scientific research proves that, contrary to being a waste of time, meditating as little as 10- to 20-minutes a day pays off in (a) better health, (b) more productivity, and c) better quality of living.


3. Boring?

LivingMoments meditation introduces and emphasizes your own creative role in personalizing the wording, messages, and images your mind focuses on. Instead of mentally repeating uninteresting words, phrases and prayers, for example, you repeat words, phrases and affirmations that are personal and meaningful to you.


4. It’s a religious thing?

Historically that’s true. And for many people who regularly meditate, it is true. But LivingMoments meditation emphasizes that it’s entirely your choice as to how religious or how secular and non-religious the words and images are in your own personal meditating


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