What is mini meditation?

Question

i have heard this term many times

i dont have any clue about it

how can we perform it?

is it good for reducing stress?

Answer 1

i found this on the net:Mini-meditations boost focus and calm your mind throughout the day. They require no fancy preparation or techniques, and you can do them anywhere in less than a minute — so they’re ideal mindfulness exercises whether you’re at home in a quiet room or in the midst of a busy day at work.

Here’s the process:

1. Stop what you’re doing. Grab a minute for yourself, and mentally set aside what you’re doing. Remember: the whole exercise takes less than a minute, so you needn’t make a big deal about finding the perfect stopping point. It’s really more a pause than a stop, and you’ll be refreshed and able to start what you’re doing again in just a little bit.

2. Close your eyes. Let your eyelids close and relax.

3. Pay attention to your breath. The core of this exercise is awareness of your breath. You needn’t do anything special with it — just breathe normally, but do pay attention to the sensation of your breath entering and leaving your body. If you’d like, you may breathe a bit slower and more deeply than you ordinarily do.

4. Count three full inhale-exhale cycles. Inhale and exhale. As you exhale, think to yourself: one. Inhale and exhale again, and think: two. Finally, inhale and exhale, and think: three.

5. Slowly open your eyes and resume what you were doing.

That’s it! Nice and simple. Try mini-meditations periodically throughout your day, and see for yourself if it’s helpful to you.

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Are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed with shopping or hosting/travel preparations? Or worried about finishing up a project at work? Or maybe you just want to take a break from the buy-buy-buy atmosphere.

Meditation can be a powerful source of health and wellness, for both body and spirit. Even when we don’t have the time or inclination for a full meditation “practice,” a few moments of deep breath and holding acupressure points can be calming and relaxing.

The Self-Acu Mini Meditation takes just a few minutes, and can be done anywhere. At your desk, sitting in your car, or at bed-time. It’s easy to do, and gives you a chance to hold two important acupressure points: the Third Eye (between your eyebrows) and the Hara (below your bellybutton.)

Give yourself this gift, now or anytime.

Self-Acu Mini Meditation

For a moment of relaxation during a busy day, try this mini-meditation.

Stand or sit comfortably and close your eyes.

Gently place a finger on your Third Eye-between your eyebrows-and place the palm of your other hand on your Hara-below your bellybutton.

Take five … deep … slow … breaths.

Smile. You’ve just given yourself a wonderful gift.

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Answer 2

Well. Meditation for a short duration.

Answer 3

Mini meditation means doing meditation but lossing your concrentration

Answer 4

Easy expansion – contraction meditation



This meditation is a wonderful way to begin and end your day. As it has a deeply harmonizing and euphoric, relaxing effect, it helps us directly perceive the subjective nature of space and time.

We lie down on a bed or on the floor and for 10 minutes, every morning or evening as we close our eyes, we firmly and clearly visualize the way that our vital, energetic body increases and expands more and more. We make it enlarge as much as possible also becoming aware that the energy allowing such deeply beneficent dilation comes from the Macrocosm. We continue the expansion until our body eventually reaches the room ceiling or - if we perform the exercise in the open air - the sky above. We will gradually become familiar with this vitalizing and euphoric feeling for two or three days and at the same time notice an extraordinary clear feeling of peace at the level of our entire body.

When we become fully familiar with this new vitalizing and euphoric feeling, we will visualize our body as dilating beyond the room or the sky boundaries and fill up the whole planet. Next we will sense it embracing the planet and encompass it. Therefore our subtle body will gradually become as large as our house. Next we will observe the gradual expansion until we are the size of our city or country and then as large as the whole planet. Then we will clearly sense as if the room we are in, the house, the city, the country and planet EARTH one by one inside our expanded (dilated) body. Next we continue our expansion by gradually encompassing the house surroundings and then we will feel the house inside our body. Next we gradually continue the expansion much outside the planet and through expansion we endeavor to encompass the entire solar system. In the end we will fill up the entire solar system with our expanded subtle body, mainly sensing the Sun, the Moon and all the other planets as if moving inside our expanded body.

This process of subtle dilatation of our being will be practiced perseveringly for seven days and afterwards it will be followed by the persistent repetition of the reversed process of contraction for seven days.

Now, as we lie down on the bed or on the floor we seek to feel the way our body is contracted. We sense it decrease turning smaller and smaller, so small that to a certain point it is nothing but an atom inside our heart. Next, we continue to feel the way this contracted atom, which is our subtle body, turns that small that it eventually disappears into something unique and eternal inside of us.

In the end of the seven days of persevering practice of this technique for the contraction of the subtle body, we will realize that from the subtle point of view, we are able to become that small that it is be almost impossible for us to determine our own location.

Therefore we will become fully aware that through dilatation we can turn as unlimited as the solar system, feeling able to “embrace” all that surrounds us. Or, we will notice the fact that through contraction we can turn as miniscule and invisible as a tiny atom. We will therefore train ourselves for the expansion and contraction motion for seven days each, rigorously following all the previously described stages.

By practicing this technique for 5-10 minutes daily for 14 days, the positive effects emerging will be the following: an increased feeling or inner welfare, an ocean-like and nuanced state of happiness. At the same time will feel light, imponderable, deeply centered and much balanced. During the higher stages of practice of this technique, the human being may reach the ecstatic state of cosmic consciousness (that yogis call SAMADHI).

See also:

Easy exercise for transcending time and space





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Answer 5

Great for stress and anger reduction.

• this is a brief meditation you can do when you have a few seconds of nothing important to do, or when you encounter a stressful or potentially angry situation

• you can do this from any posture: standing, walking, sitting

• and, you may keep your eyes open, especially if you are walking or driving

• breathe normally and calmly, noticing the in-breath and the out breath

• focus on feeling the in-breath touching your upper lip

• and, focus on feeling the out-breath touching your upper lip

• do this 3 or more times

Answer 6

Mini meditation can be done while on work...

There are more kinds...

3 steps=

1) Take deep breathe for 3 times

2) At the fourth time, hold the breathe and imagine that the air you've taken is cleaning and purifying your mind.

3) Repeat the above two steps for 3 times

Answer 7

Hello banjaran

A 'mini meditation' is a time for bringing yourself back into awareness & the present.

It can be a simple as focusing on  a single breath & allowing the world to stop to listening to a bird chirp.

Yes it will reduce stress. Aim for up to 10 mini's a day!

Sadhara

Answer 8

MINI -Meditation may for mind alone to be peaceful without following any technique

Meditation is for body-mind -soul