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Meditating in Stress Awareness Month

04/07/21 | fitness, Peloton, Real Life

London Fitness Blogger - Self Care Yoga - Stress Awareness Month

April is off to a great start, both mentally and figuratively and I am still on cloud-9 from how wonderful last week was.  Without being reminded I could have told you last month, March, was Women’s History Month but you gave me 100 guesses as to what the month of April was I would have never got it right.  On April 1st I received an email – and not a April Fool’s note – from Headspace about Stress Awareness Month.

While Headspace particularly focuses in meditation they suggest it is one of the best ways to decrease stress and I would have to agree.  I do not use that app but it reminded me that my Peloton subscription involves meditation.  Now this was not a new revelation as I mentioned it in my February Fitness Recap post I had tried their meditation before but only the sleep content (it is great).

However, for the past week I have been trying out different kinds of content –  empathy meditation, peace meditation,  and – but my favorite is gratitude meditation.  While exercise helps over the past few days, this is making a difference, albeit small I am not one to sit still for too long but 5 minutes or 10 minutes?  that I can do!    And in case any of you are going to look into these classes or want to learn more I love this article from the Peloton blog on How Sleep Meditation Helps You Sleep.  And from the past few months Mark and I really love Anna Greenberg for our sleep meditation – her voice is just so soothing!

I was going to wait until the end of the month to share my meditation but while we still have a few weeks left of April I thought it might be useful for to share.  For anyone else who wants to take a deep dive into  Stress Awareness Month – I would suggest meditation or one of the other proven stress relieving techniques like deep breathing, muscle relaxing, or counseling.

Did you know it was stress awareness month?

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  1. Emma says

    April 9, 2021 at 8:17 am

    Never heard of stress awareness month but with all of the challenges people are facing these days I think you could call it stress awareness year.

    I try deep breathing, pretending I am skiing or a bird who can fly and try to wait for my stress to reduce itself and get in a happier place. Sometimes super hard for me to do.

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  2. Kelsey says

    April 8, 2021 at 9:33 am

    Sleep meditation is not something I have considered but sounds like a great natural option.

    I have done the melatonin, listen to waves, done the sleep stuff on my iPhone and none of it seems to work very well. Nice idea.

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  3. Jane says

    April 8, 2021 at 8:00 am

    I never knew that there were different kinds of meditations. Shows you that I have never really looked into it.

    Thanks for the links too, I will have to give it a try. Let’s face it we all you use a bit of self help and de stressing.

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  4. Danielle says

    April 7, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    I have never tried meditation before so this is a really interesting thing for me to give a try.

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  5. Gary says

    April 7, 2021 at 2:35 pm

    One of my friends swears by meditation and now with your endorsement, I am going to have to try it.

    I think my wife will be happy with the results if it works for me.

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