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8 Ways to Enhance Your Meditation Practice
Meditation has tons of benefits but sometimes it can feel like you’re not seeing them. It’s pretty easy to feel like you’re not getting anywhere with your practice. So try the following ways to enhance your practice and see if you get anything more from it.
Be consistent
Life is full of responsibilities and sometimes our meditation practice gets set aside in favor of getting more done that we “should” be doing. We might skip it completely, or just push it off to later in the day.
A consistent practice helps ensure better results. But consistency is about more than just meditating daily. You should also strive to meditate at the same time every day — early morning or right before bed are two excellent times that make it a little more difficult to put off. Another consistency that can benefit you is meditating in the same location every day. Changing it up now and then is nice, but your mind and body will become accustomed to the soothing peace and calm of meditation in the same place and begin to react as soon as you enter your space.
Lengthen your sessions
You should keep your meditation sessions within a comfortable time frame — what feels good to you. But if you consistently meditate for 10 minutes a day, why not try 15 or 20?
