“You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy, then you should sit for an hour.” -Zen Proverb
INSPIRATION TO PAUSE AND SIT!
“To sum up the meditative process, you have to break the habit of being yourself and reinvent a new self; lose your mind and create a new one; prune synaptic connections and nurture new ones; unmemorize past emotions and recondition the body to a new mind and emotions; and let go of the past and create a new future.” -Joe Dispenza
“There’s no such thing as a bad meditation, there’s only overcoming yourself.” -Joe Dispenza
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.” -Deepak Chopra
“In meditation, go deep in the heart.” – Lao Tzu
“Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.” – Diana Robinson
“Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.” -Joe Dispenza
Listen to these guided meditations for FREE on Insight Timer.
THREE STEPS TO PRACTICE MEDITATION
“Your thoughts and feelings come from your past memories. If you think and feel a certain way, you begin to create an attitude. An attitude is a cycle of short-term thoughts and feelings experienced over and over again. Attitudes are shortened states of being. If you string a series of attitudes together, you create a belief. Beliefs are more elongated states of being and tend to become subconscious. When you add beliefs together, you create a perception. Your perceptions have everything to do with the choices you make, the behaviors you exhibit, the relationships you chose, and the realities you create.” -Joe Dispenza
“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.” -Joe Dispenza
“Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?” -Joe Dispenza
“Meditating is also a means for you to move beyond your analytical mind so that you can access your subconscious mind. That’s crucial, since the subconscious is where all your bad habits and behaviors that you want to change reside.” -Joe Dispenza
“Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
“Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
Books to go deeper:
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
You are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon