If you expect to pursue the dream that will guide the next phase of your life, you must take care of yourself. At Valentine’s Day, when you are thinking about the people you love and the people who love you, don’t forget to show yourself a little love. Loving yourself involves caring for your mind, your body and your soul. When your mind is working creatively and is fully engaged; when your body is properly nourished, rested and toned; when your soul is at peace – then you are ready to pursue your dream; then you are ready to give back; then you are ready to change the world, or some part of it.

“Take care of yourself – you never know when the world will need you.”
– Rabbi Hillel

Silence, 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.

Sit comfortably, don’t say a word, don’t think, don’t move. Let your mind open up an awareness of beauty evolved from memory.

It could be a beautiful campsite you went to as a child, a quiet tropical island you’ve spent a few days on, a blissful moment you’ve spent on a hilltop or a mountain peak, a light drizzle or a thin fog veiling the greenery, sunrise or sunset like a warm hand touching your face.

Meditation is known to relieve stress, anxiety, pain, depression, and even help alleviate heart ailments. Your one-minute meditation can’t hope to achieve these benefits in an instant. But stress relief and putting a little sanity into your blurry routine are enough reason to make it a habit.

Some workplaces have prayer or meditation rooms, even gardens. They are perfect places for your one-minute habit. If your workplace doesn’t have one, management won’t take against you if you suggest they put up one. A company becomes more productive if it gives its employees a time and a place to catch their breath.

Your one-minute meditation should also help simplify and organize your thoughts. It refreshes your mind so you can see clearly that happiness can be had by doing everything in moderation, not by indulging your desires and having the best of everything.

A deeper understanding of the essence of everything opens up the gate for the organization of the person’s thoughts. It is important to keep things organized to avoid too much physical activities that could restrain the improvement of one’s mental, physical and spiritual health.

Lastly, your one-minute habit should help you realize your imperfection, and you’re all the wiser for it. That you are vulnerable to mistakes should not make you feel inferior; it should be an impetus for you to do better at things you’re more likely to excel in and to be careful where you’re likely to not do well.

It’s a matter of affirmative thinking. The one-minute meditation is a step towards the positive light, like the luminescence of early morning light punctuated by the flutter of a dove’s wings.

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