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Mindful Meditation – Breaking Step 3: Mindful transition from meditation

By: Rajni Ghai Malhotra

Meditation can be long spread over days and hours or short, spanning a few minutes. Regardless of its duration, returning to the outside world can be disturbing and even overwhelming.

Stepping back into the outside world after meditation is moving from a place of gentleness and calm into a place of noise and sensations. It is important to adopt a mindful approach to transition between the two stages to retain the benefits of your meditation practice.

This brings us to the third and final part of this three-part series on Mindful Meditation broken into the following steps:

Step 1: Sitting mindfully (focus on posture)

Step 2: Mindfulness Meditation (focus on breath work and flow of thoughts)

Step 3: Seamless transition into our everyday world

In this edition, I share a few tips that could be used to form your own routine of transition from meditation to ordinary consciousness.

How to mindfully transition from meditation to ordinary consciousness

Sitting in meditation for as little or as long as you feel comfortable, you know it is now time to bring your meditation to a close.

Attention - Begin to direct your attention to your breath. Keeping your attention to your breath, savour the delicious feeling of being home in your body.

Shifting of focus - Slowly shift your focus