Garden Meditation Day – May 3, 2023

Greeting readers! 

May 3rd is National Garden Meditation Day, a great way and time to practice self-care! National Garden Meditation Day may be one of your year’s most relaxing and fulfilling practices. Meditation is a great way to calm our bodies and minds! It can strengthen areas of your brain responsible for memory, learning, attention, and self-awareness. 

Over time, practicing meditation daily can have great benefits for your body and mind. Some short time benefits that come from meditation include: 

  • Lower Blood Pressure

  • Improve Blood Circulation

  • Lower Heart Rate

  • Lower blood cortisol levels

  • Increase cognition

  • Improve memory and attention

  • Decrease stress, depression, and anxiety

When we meditate, we inject far-reaching and long-lasting benefits into our lives: we lower our stress levels, we get to know our pain, we connect better, we improve focus, and we’re kinder to ourselves. 

Here’s how YOU can be a Prevention Partner:
Trying using these tips to incorporate meditation into your daily routine!

Try and meditate first thing in the morning. This is to ensure that meditation gets done and will make any feelings of tiredness fade away, setting you on track for a mindful day!

If you are struggling to practice meditating in the morning, that’s okay! As long as you can prioritize meditation in your day, then you are making the first step to achieving a healthy mind and body.  

Think about practicing meditating at the same time, same place. This will help turn this into a fully established habit. 

Meditation should be practiced in a peaceful location. Find a place where you will not be interrupted during your meditation time. It’s especially important to avoid any external distractions such as TVs, phones, or other noisy appliances. 

When you stop meditating, your mind can lose its sense of clarity and focus. It could make you feel foggy and not as sharp! It’s important to keep this healthy habit 

Now is your opportunity to incorporate a healthy habit into your daily lifestyle! Readers can visit these additional resources for more great tips and information on the importance of practicing meditation!

Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher.  He has authored two best-selling books and oversees the Tergar Meditation Community, an international network of Buddhist meditation centers. In this video, Mingyur Rinpoche explains the essence of meditation and describes some common misunderstandings about practicing meditation. He also shares some tips for bringing meditation into our day-to-day lives.