Make your life a Meditation in Motion

Jan Normanton • October 10, 2024

Use the mundane moments in your life to practise meditation in motion to feel expansive and grounded, present and fulfilled

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I know for myself and many of my clients, we don’t have time to settle down and do a formal type of meditation every evening. I seek the most efficient and effective way to do the same, by incorporating meditations in motion into my seemingly mindless activities throughout the day, in the mundane activities, such as washing up the dishes, the clothes, the laundry, in hoovering, in taking a shower in the morning first thing.


And so I practise mindfulness and really get myself absorbed in the very activity I’m doing, taking note, noticing how my body feels, if I’m embodied, where my mind drifts and where it takes away and then takes me down rabbit holes sometimes. And I bring myself back gently into the moment and practise mindfulness, full immersion in the moment, fully embodied and fully present.


And I find this gives me glimmers throughout my day, affords me the opportunity to really be present with what is, and creates that lovely expansive feeling in my body and that lovely escape from my monkey chatter.


So I practise meditation in motion throughout the mundane moments of my life and this works for me!

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