[Voodoo]

I've been practicing meditation almost daily for a year now and here is the changes that I noticed :

• improved abilitity to stay focus (the provement is quite big!!)
• better sleep
• less procrastination
• I listen a lot less to my internal talk
• improved overall well being

For those of you who practice meditation, what have been the most obvious improvement in your daily life?

[healingme4me]

A sense of calm . I wouldn't say that i use mindfulness meditation techniques. When I was young, my dad was good friends with someone kinda new age, and i learned all about meditation(white light approach) and pyramids and numbers, et al. I was 10,11,12,13...
I work with someone who's often curious if I'm on meds to reach calm...i digress...
At this point in life, close eyes, deep breath, focus energy to my core. I typically sit in a meditation style at home, anyhow.

[Oneiros]

I've learnt lots of different techniques, but basically my favorite rhythm is to do the mindful bit, then just focus on silence. My improvements are:

* I agree on the focus!
* Increased self-awareness, self confidence
* Improved intuition, successful outcomes when I go with my gut instinct
* Just being more relaxed and calm in many more situations, I realize not a lot majorly matters. Things can often be replaced, renewed, fixed and so on.
* There is a lot less drama, stress and tension now in my life in comparison to this time last year

[kiwi33]

Mindfulness/meditation has made a big difference to my life.

As part of my mental health self-care I do a breathing meditation every morning (focusing on the physical sensations of breathing).

Quite often when I am doing that thoughts and feelings appear in my mind. I have learned (for me it took some time) to notice them with no judgement; "Hmm, that is a thought or feeling. Thoughts and feelings just are but they do not define me. I can watch a thought or feeling as it moves out of my awareness and then focus on the physical sensations of breathing again."

This works for me.

[orkidebarn]

I started my journey of active self development this spring. By reading some self help books, and weeding out those books and theories that seem to be false or rather should I call them "quick fixes" and such. I had heard of mindfulness before, but it seemed like this trendy thing at that time when it peaked in Norway so I didn't really bother get into it before now - now that I actively investigated self development, enlightenment and such.

I have been practicing and studying it quite a lot the recent month and I find it already helping me slightly. I feel a lot of emotions when meditating, but it really seems to help me look into the depths of them and help me "control" them, or rather let them come and go more naturally than just showing them aside. You know what I mean?

And yeah! The thing Kiwi33 said about thoughts and feelings not defining you really gave me an a-ha moment once I read that in my book on mindfulness. I like the approach mindfulness has to change my mindset to allow feelings to come, being aware of them but reminding you that you aren't your feelings. You are just feeling them. Thats a crucial point

[PowerOfNoSelf]

Thank you for this post.
While I have read about and believe the importance of meditation, I have not disciplined myself enough to start it on a regular basis.
Your posts remind me why I need to get going on this!

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[Voodoo]

One thing you can try to get into the habit, is to start really really small and then increment daily.
I started by meditating 1 minute the first day, then 2 minutes the next day, etc... After 30 days I stopped incrementing and kept the habit of 30 minutes a day.

This technique really helps overcoming the resistance of implementing something new!

[Quodnomen]

I've been wanting to get into mindfulness meditation for a while, and your experiences sound great! Is there a specific book, video, etc that you'd recommend? The options seem overwhelming and sometimes gimmicky.

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[spring2014]

for me my sleep has improved w exercise and doing mindfulness for a half an hour every night .

[kiwi33]

Quodnomen, Hurry Up And Meditate by David Michie is a good book to have a look at.