1,000 Days of Resetting
Today I am grateful for the pleasant weather that has continued and for a good run yesterday, my longest in quite a while. I give thanks for time with family and the ways our family is evolving and growing up.
I am also very appreciative of the meditation app Insight Timer. I mention it often, for good reason. It has helped me practice mindfulness and meditation in recent years. This practice has made a significant difference in my overall well-being and mindset. Practice makes progress possible and I plan to keep practicing.
Successful meditation, as I would describe it, is to be able to become fully present, even for a moment or two, and tap into our own amazing minds, bodies, hearts, and souls in ways we often miss. It does not mean being distraction-free, but rather less distracted, or at least able to recognize when the distractions have totally taken over and a reset is needed. It’s amazing how even a brief reset can ease an overloaded mind or release some energy in a healing heart.
Reset. It beats winding and rewinding some worry, a regret, or one of those ego-feeding pits I can easily fall into. Reset. A momentary pause to help the hours ahead know more contentment and productivity. Presence—a little bit can go a long way.
I was pleasantly surprised a couple of days ago as I meandered around the Insight Timer functions and features on my phone and discovered that I had just reached 1,000 days of using the app. I probably first tinkered with it four or five years ago, and now it is a part of my daily routine. One-thousand days of practice and the progress is noticeable. Just ask my mind, heart, body and soul.
I encourage you to give it a try. An app, or just a pause here and there, or both. Our hearts beat on average 100,000 times a day and we take somewhere in the range of 20,000 breaths. Even if I tune into a handful of each, I will experience benefits. My own time-tested experience has proven this. It’s working, so I will keep working at it. Daily work for a daily overthinker and overdoer.
