lorie.marrero's video: My Secret Weapon for Happiness Calm

Lovesac website: http://www.lovesac.com Muse Headset- http://bit.ly/lm1muse Headspace- http://bit.ly/headspace7 Insight Timer- https://insighttimer.com/ http://www.ClutterDiet.com My calm demeanor is no happy accident. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to remain happy and harmonious. Watch this video for the one tool that helps manage my mood more than anything else... simple meditation! Here I talk about meditation techniques, benefits of meditation, how people use meditation for anxiety, ways to meditate, and how to start slow and develop a mindfulness practice. Practice meditation even for only a few minutes per day and reap huge benefits! Easy meditation is as close as an app on your phone- and you don't even need that! Lorie posts here on our Lorie.TV organizing channel. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as a national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and is a Contributing Editor to Woman's Day magazine. Find her on Facebook @ http://www.LorieFacebook.com and Instagram @ http://www.LorieInstagram.com. FTC Disclosure: Occasionally I publish links to products which may provide me with a commission if you purchase from my link. I feature only products here that I absolutely believe in and getting a commission on them is just a smart bonus if I happen to have a link available to me. I am at all times looking out for what is best for my viewers and my reputation. These videos are free, so any small percentage I make here helps make it possible for me to continue producing content. Hi, I'm organizing and lifestyle expert Lorie Marrero. Coming to you from my favorite chair. This is where I sit to do my reading & practice my secret weapon tool of choice for reducing stress and remaining calm under pressure and staying happy. This is the secret. It is meditation. Now before you click away and you think meditation is not for you, believe me, I used to think that too. I had a picture in my head of someone burning incense and sitting a special way. None of those things are true. What we know now about meditation is that it is a scientific practice that is literally training your brain. Think about when do we ever train our brain? We work out with weights for our body. We run and we eat right and we do all kinds of other training for other things we do in our life, but our brains we don't pay attention to. However, our brain is running the whole show. So what I like about meditation is this. When I'm going through the day I have various stimuli that are happening to me. Something happens in my business, or the phone rings, or someone asks me a question, whatever those different stimuli are, I in the past just like everyone else would react to that like a reflex, like if you hit your knee and it kicks, right? Just a reflex, something that you don't think about. You might actually get angry. You might say something you regret. What if you had practice in pausing a moment before you respond? What if you respond versus react? When you mediate you learn that you are the observer of your thoughts and you do have the choice of which thoughts you're going to have. This is a wonderful practice. And if you don't believe me about the science just google science on meditation. You’ll find a lot of studies about stress reduction, anxiety reduction, immune system response. There's a lot of actual body benefits, not just mind benefits. I want to give you a few resources to make this easier for you. You do have time. It doesn't take any more than 5 minutes, 7 minutes, 12 minutes. But it just takes very few minutes to exercise this muscle and work on this to improve your response during the day. There's an app called Headspace that you can get on your phone. That's how I got started. There's another app called Insight Timer that a lot of people enjoy. I practiced with those until I developed the habit. Once I did that I rewarded myself with this really cool gadget that's called the Muse. You do not need one of these to meditate. In fact, you don't even need an app. You can meditate anytime anywhere by yourself and you don't have to do it any special way. This is sort of like a heart rate monitor for your brain. It lets you know when your brain is in calm state, neutral state, or active state, and you get auditory feedback in your headphones so that you know what state your brain is in and you can listen and immediately change it and you learn how to adjust your pattern so that you get to be in calm state more percentage of the time. It's a really great tool. I would love to hear in the comments if you've tried meditation, what you find challenging about it, what kind of myths you have dispelled about that personally, and how it's helped you in your life. I love it. I will see you next time. May you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.