Living In Magic

I have to say that to maintain a state of constant ease and grace, nothing compares to stopping and taking a step back into eternity on a regular basis.

After over 10 years of spiritual practice, I have come to realize that life is a moment to moment experience, a second by second awareness and nothing helps me maintain a high state of consciousness better than regular breaks where I can settle back into peace.

For this, the most effective thing I have found (since I spend a considerable amount of time on the computer) is to have a ‘meditation timer’ going off regularly – reminding me to stop and consider the deeper things in life…

I have included the links here for you to download this free software yourself. Personally, I found every 20 minutes is an ideal interval between bells, as I can see how much I am aware of the more unlimited aspects of life during that period and it also allows me to see how productive I have been.

A huge fan of the 80/20 principle I love to make sure my time is actually spent in a worthwhile way both in terms of feeling wonderful at every moment (main priority) and also getting tasks done with ease, grace and total efficiency.

By having a nice Tibetan bowl sound every 20 minutes, I am able to remain in the zone, have consistently wonderful days and produce high quality, powerful and enjoyable work.

When I forget to turn on the timer for whatever reason, I find my day is comparatively wasted and considerably less enjoyable. The difference is of day and night.

If you would like to try this practice for yourself, download some of this FREE software below. You can, of course, use it as an actual meditation timer – which is what it was originally designed for!

FOR MAC

http://philcastillo.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/free_meditation_timer_software
http://wcrawford.org/2006/11/09/meditation-timer-12/ This is what I use. It’s perfect.

FOR PC

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-meditation-timer-v2-2-0.html
http://wareseeker.com/download/buddhabell-meditation-timer-1.0.4.rar/1f7e17b11

You may find that every hour works better for you or whatever. Try it and find out for yourself.

Take it to the next level

Another powerful tool that takes this practice to the next level is to listen to some beautiful 60 second meditations every hour. This is a project I was involved with in 2006 and I can’t recommend it enough. There are 20 1-minute meditations that you can put on your ipod or computer and play them every hour.

If you have an ipod, you can create alarms so they play automatically. It’s a bit fiddly, but it’s worth it if you’re a bit tech savvy. It’s a beautiful experience to glide effortlessly into sweet meditation without doing anything…

You can download these powerful meditations below for free. Enjoy

http://www.just-a-minute.org/