Meditation doesn’t have to be lengthy to give you rich benefits. Directing your calm, centered attention toward your body decreases stress and strengthens your connection to yourself. Two minutes of compassionate awareness of how you’re feeling throughout your body reduces harmful stress chemicals and allows you to return to balance.
The beauty of a two-minute body sense meditation, sometimes called a body scan meditation, is that you can do it just about anywhere, anytime. You don’t need to feel pressure to carve out large chunks of your day to receive the gifts of this practice.
The best time to do this meditation is before you get out of bed in the morning. If that’s not going to work for you, the brevity of this practice lets you get creative.
Take the 2 minutes before you get out of your car when you arrive at work or meetings. Give yourself these 2 minutes before you go to sleep.
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