How a Beautiful Set Up helps you stay committed
Having a meditation practice will do wonders for your skin health and overall wellbeing.
As with many things in life in order to really see a change - you need to find a way to be consistent.
Adding beauty to your meditation spot as well as creating some form of accountability - and your meditation practice will be something you look forward to every day.
Written by: Isabelle Brockbals, Founder of &Spirit
Beautiful meditation pillows by the danish wellness brand moshi moshi mind.
Relax & Reset - Your daily mental shower
Think of your meditation practice as a mental shower you take each day that allows you to enter your day with more focus, space and calm and gives your face and your skin a chance to relax and reset.
But as life happens to be tricky in letting us believe that we don't have time to meditate we need to find ways to trick ourselves into returning to our meditation pillow.
The solution: Invite beauty into your meditation set up.
Create Beauty around your practice
Meditation and its effects is something that is not necessarily connected to any items or places. That's basically a good thing since it enables us to meditate everywhere anytime.
Nevertheless it can help you tremendously to be more consistent if you connect beautiful items with your meditation practice.
We are much more likely to commit to something if we associate beautiful items with it.
Choose your meditation pillow
This can be as simple as really loving the colour of your meditation pillow.
The Danish wellness brand moshi moshi mind has a wonderful meditation moon pillow that combines style with function beautifully. With its circular shape it is much easier to find a comfortable seat and therefore stay still for the duration of your meditative practice.
Find a meditation pillow that will make you smile when you look at it and act as a beautiful reminder to make space for yourself.
Don't hide it in the closet but place it somewhere you see it regularly.
by Moshi Moshi Mind
Light a beautiful crystal candle
Start your meditation with lighting a candle, no matter if you sit down for 3 minutes or 20 minutes.
See it as an opening ritual for the time you've dedicated to yourself and to your inner peace. When you blow out the candle you close that space and you go on with your day.
When choosing candles make sure it's paraffin-free. There are a lot of great brands which make natural candles using soy wax or another plant based paraffin alternative. Something else to look out for is how the candle is fragranced. Go for a brand that uses pure essential oils without any artificial fragrance.
And last but not least - choose a candle that you think is really beautiful and makes you excited to return to your meditation practice.
For this article we've spent a long time finding a brand that combines all these inner values with external beauty. What we've found:
The Mallorca based company Love & Stones.
They make beautiful soy candles using natural soy wax from Sweden, infusing them with crystals and organic essential oils.
One of our favourites
The Abundance Citrine infused ceramic soy candle.
Get 10% off when buying your crystal candle by using the code ISABELLE10 at checkout.
Choose a dedicated meditation spot
You can even take things further and create a little meditation corner in your home to return to each day. Check out Pinterest for inspiration how that can look like.
This place can become your power place at home since it is constantly charged with new energy when you sit down to meditate.
Create accountability
Ask a friend to join you on your mission to create a steady meditation practice. Another thing you can do is to use apps like Insight Timer. That way you will always know how many days you practiced in a row and let me assure you: at some point you just don't want to fall back to day one.
Use Insight Timer to help you stay consistent
At some point you just don’t want to fall back to day one.
The Bottom Line
Having a consistent meditation practice will change your life.
It will provide you with more focus, clarity and strength for whatever life throws your way. Not so mention the effects on your energy and skin health.
Like with brushing your teeth, consistency is more important than length of practice.
By inviting more beauty to your meditation practice you make sure that it's a place you are looking forward to returning to. Add some form of accountability to the picture and you are all set. Happy meditating!
Written by: Isabelle Brockbals, Founder of &Spirit
Photo Credit: Moshi Moshi Mind, Love & Stones