From the course: Mindful Meditations for Work and Life

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Integrated practices

Integrated practices

- [Narrator] We've been talking about the dedicated practices of meditation where you sit down and intentionally meditate. But there's also a set of practices I call the integrated practices and these are the things that we can do at work or during our day that also help us get more of what we want. For example if you just need a break in between meetings, you could just take a few breaths. You can even do it while you're walking from one meeting to the next. Or as you're preparing for your next meeting, just take a minute to breathe in deeply and out deeply once or several times. It'll help again activate that parasympathetic system and get you ready for whatever is coming. If you have a team, you could try starting a team meeting with a moment of silence. And depending on the willingness of the team, you could call it that, you could call it a little meditation or it could just be an arrival. So for instance if you had people that maybe meditation is not their thing, you could just…

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