Category Archives: 1-Minute Retreats

Benefit #4 of Dreaming Big

February 3, 2010 – 3:14 pm

Find out just how far you can go – find out what is in you.  When you dare to dream BIG and you dare to stretch yourself to fulfill your big dream, you will find out what you are made of. You will discover the amazing depth of your passion for your dream, the breadth of your courage and the extent to which you can go to make your dream into reality. You might need the help and the support of others, but that is a bit part of what makes the journey so much fun! By daring to dream BIG and pursuing your dream with your greatest determination and strength and courage, you will probably test your limits and discover that there is more in you than you ever thought.

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Read A Minute and Be Inspired

September 7, 2009 – 6:35 pm

good-readIn this culture of cut-throat competition and fast-paced living, taking a minute would not likely matter to anyone. For some, it’s just a moment of mum. You can achieve the most coveted calmness, peace of mind, and inner serenity on your own. In other words you can find your own inspiration through reading an inspirational article or book chapter in a minute.

What are some examples of readings that can inspire you? It merely depends on the reader’s personality. There are many self-help books, as well as inspirational material written by religious writers that can uplift your spirit. Here are some books that you can choose from:

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Take a Minute to listen to Music

August 31, 2009 – 6:31 pm

listen-to-musicYou can be a mom, a WHO doctor on mission, or an Internet marketer, but at one point in your busy schedule, you need a 1-minute breathing space. This minute may mean just a couple of tick tocks on your wall clock but taking a breather has long-term benefits.

What can you do for a 1 minute break? The reason why sales for MP3 players and iPods don’t go down is that people love music. It has become as valuable as food. Listening to music is one good way of spending a minute to break away from what you are doing. Tune in to your favorite station on your iPod and close your eyes for maximum effect. You will notice how it lulls you and makes you think of images and scenes that can relax your nerves after the frenzy caused by deadlines, rush hour traffic, and scheduled appointments.

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Get Happy with a Visual Stimulus for a Minute Break

August 24, 2009 – 6:15 pm

get-visualWhat’s in store for you in a 1 minute break? More focus, more ideas and imagination, and a more personable attitude are just a few things you can gain from taking a minute from work.

How can you manage to acquire all these in a minute? Surprisingly, you can do this when you allow yourself to do something that makes you happy. Who wouldn’t feel better by looking at a happy picture? A happy picture is any visual representation that can inspire, motivate, or simply make you happy. Once you try this, you’ll see how this can make a difference in your mood.

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Take 1 Minute Meditations for Life

August 10, 2009 – 7:28 am

daydreaming-womanWhen you’re a top executive in a Fortune 500 company, the last thing you have on your mind during working hours is a retreat. It’s even likely that you haven’t the faintest idea what a retreat might look like, since all you know is consistent hard work. Finding time to look out the window for a minute to break away from the daily barrage of meetings and phone or conference calls might be like a retreat to you.

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Creating Opportunities for Serenity

August 3, 2009 – 7:18 am

tranquil-womanSilence, calmness, tranquility, peace – they’re all synonymous to serenity. It’s the absence of sensory distractions, allowing calmness to rule over. And surely you have a minute to spare for it in a day.

That’s not difficult to achieve in your waking hours. There are opportunities for it at home, even in a quiet room in your workplace.

The best way to achieve serenity is through meditation but you can have your own one-minute version of it. The meditative discipline has several techniques practiced and ‘perfected’ by gurus but if these feel like an added ‘workload’ for you, just find your own quiet breathing space. You don’t have to trade one regimen with another.

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Take Time to Meditate

July 29, 2009 – 6:42 am

take-time-to-meditateRush. This is the byword of the new generation. Time speeds up and people keep up.

Stopping often means losing in the business rat race. The goals are to do well, have more, and enjoy the best. But do these people really reach their goals, or do the goals just keep getting higher?

You need to distinguish yourself from pumped-up lemmings. Take a pause. Sit awhile. Examine what you have and what you have been missing.

How will you make most of your time when you are at ‘pause’? Consider meditating.

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Try Your Hand at Creativity

July 10, 2009 – 10:48 am

Creative Hands

Creative Hands

‘Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of self,’ says the social psychologist Erich Fromm.

‘To be born every day’ means to be constantly amazed by the things life has to offer, to not tire of watching the sunset, the moon peeking from the fleeting clouds, the crowd of stars on a clear cool night, the sunlight on the breakfast table.

Even the unpleasant twists and turns, the bad news and disappointments can become stimuli for better things, the way art also portrays the dark areas of the human psyche. Indeed, creativity’s best tool is its transformative quality.

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The Morning Shower Meditation

July 3, 2009 – 12:11 pm

relaxing-shower1For every new day, nutritionists and exercise gurus can suggest several things for your health: eating a hearty, balanced breakfast and doing stretches, cardio exercises and strengthening routines. But what about your soul?

Early morning must be a treat not only to the person’s ‘corpus’ but also to his ‘anima’ (call it inner self or soul). The Chinese usually go to the park or in their gardens to do tai-chi, which relaxes both body and mind. But you can do something simpler than that right inside your own home.

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Find Wonder in Little Things

June 26, 2009 – 5:24 pm

wonder-in-small-things1‘Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive.’ – Gautama Buddha

If ordinarily mortals like us saw life the way the Enlightened One did, there’d be no cause for suffering — for the negativity that consumes most of our passions. Perhaps heaven is not a place after all but a way of seeing things.

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