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If you have stress and anxiety, or persistent negative thoughts, you’ll want to know how to create a meditation space in your mind. This past week has been about just that for me. My mantra to self has been, “I allow myself to be spacious”. Being spacious for me means clearing the clutter in my mind. It might mean taking a social media break more often just to allow some inner space without the distraction of news and entertainment. Perhaps it means being less busy by doing less. There’s nothing like the feeling of “Ahhhh” when you take a breath of fresh air in the outdoors. Ideally, we want our minds to feel clear, spacious, and refreshed.

You can achieve this indoors or out. Many people choose to meditate indoors, which is a great idea if you want to be comfortable. Meditating outdoors is also wonderful. As you can see in my photo, my place of arrival in nature is above a frozen Barrier Lake, a beautiful, spacious lake that I can imagine is the spaciousness in my mind.

Go ahead and set yourself up for meditation, indoors or out, as it’s important to arrive wherever you are. Arriving means noticing what you see, hear, smell, taste, or touch. This is how you come into present moment awareness, which is a great way to begin.

Setting Up Your Physical Space

When you’re ready to create a meditation space, the first thing you will think of is your physical space. You may want to dim the lights, light a candle, burn some sage, palo santo, or incense. It may be comfortable for you to sit on a cushion on the floor, in a chair, or laying flat on a yoga met. Preferably somewhere where you’re not going to fall asleep during your meditation. You may have a special quiet spot inside that you save only for your meditations.

If you’re outdoors, you may bring a chair, yoga block, or mat to sit or lay on that will support you and make you comfortable. Preferably, you would find some beautiful nature to rest beside. Trees, a river, stream, flower garden, forest, and mountains. They are all calling you and inviting you to meditate in their precious engergies. Make sure you are safe from wildlife, and create a meditation space that feels just right for you.

Moving From Physical Space to Mind Space

Once you get your seat set up, indoors or outdoors, you’re ready to arrive in that space, and notice the sensations in your body, and around you. What draws your attention? What birds do you hear chirping? How does the wind feel on your face? Maybe you taste a berry on a bush, or feel the cold snow in your hands. Welcome to your meditation. You have arrived!

After arriving, it’s time to move to your mind space. There’s a lot going on up there in the grey matter of your brain, and you want to calm that down a little. Start by simply noticing your thoughts. Are they racing? Are they scattered? How is the quality of your thoughts? Are they positive, negative, anxious, worried, fearful, resentful, happy, sad? Simply noticing what’s going on in your mind will help you create a meditation space in your mind.

Once you start noticing the mind, it’s easier to take control of those thoughts. If you aren’t aware of them, how can you change them? With an Eagle’s eye view, see your brain space, and look at yourself from a different perspective. That will allow you to work on spaciousness of mind. You can also create spaciousness of heart…

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Create A Meditation Space of Neutrality

With this new spaciousness of mind and heart, now imagine your thoughts as clouds passing through the sky. Watch them come and go with the wind. Perhaps you imagine yourself as a body of water, like a vast ocean, or a pristine lake. The waves may come and go, but the water is always there in its own unique nature. We, too, will shift and grow with the changing of seasons and circumstances in our lives. Yet, we are still the same being, and have our own unique nature too.

I’ve created a great meditation in nature for this very idea of neutrality. Neutrality means a clear, spacious mind. It’s like a zero point, where the mind and energy centres are neither positive, nor negative. They are just neutral. Calm, relaxed, and balanced. Try it out now:

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When your mind is like a lake, it is vast, open, spacious, and there is room to breathe. Speaking of breath, don’t forget to breathe! That’s a major thing we all do naturally. But when we deepen the breath, in and out, and even hold the breath at the top and bottom of our breaths, it helps neutralize the space in our minds. Knowing how to control your breath when you are stressed or anxious is very important, and it only happens with regular practice and breath work.

Take Time to Rest To Create a Meditation Space

Along with the breath work we can do, it’s also important to rest when our bodies say, “Rest!” I’ve been reading a great book called, “You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance” by Asha Frost. What a beatuiful read on the different moons of the month, and which spirit animal is present during each of the months. For February, it’s the bear spirit that we need to keep in mind.

Bears hibernate in winter, reminding us that we need to listen to the signs our bodies are giving us. When you ache somewhere in the body, it’s time to rest. The bear’s message, as described in this book is, “You are worthy of rest; Listen to the messages from your body; Magic is birthed from the void; The Great Mystery moves through us, even when it appears that nothing is happening”.

These are great ideas to keep in mind as we move and rest during the month of February. It may feel like resting is lazy and that you need to be doing something, or going somewhere. However, there’s so much happening beneath the surface, in the quiet space. So allow yourself the create a meditation space in your mind like this.

I’ve discovered so far this month that when I allow myself to be spacious by disconnecting from social media a little more, and listening to the messages in the silence, I feel much lighter, less irritated, more relaxed, and refreshed. It may take a little practice to step away from your busy way of being. But it’s so worth it when you reach that sense of “Ahhhh!” – Spacious and neutral in the meditation space you’ve created for yourself.

Exercise To Create a Meditation Space in Your Mind

Another way of creating a peaceful meditation space in your mind is to exercise your body, especially in the freshness of the outdoors. It gets the blood flowing and circulating better, oxygenates your cells and brain, improves flow and creativity, and boosts your mood. It’s a perfect way to set yourself up for a spacious mind.

Not only that, but after a workout, you can take a nice shower, go for a steam or sauna, and feel invigorated on many levels. When your body fluids are flowing, your mind becomes clear, just like when you have a shower, you wash yourself clean and clear and it feels so good.

You’ll notice when you practice any of these things on a regular basis, it gets easier and easier to come into that calm, peaceful place in mind, body, and spirit. You will feel so revived all around, and when you feel better, everyone around you feels your good vibes and becomes more spacious and happy too. Now get started on creating a meditation space in your mind!

Lee Spirit is an avid outdoors adventurer with a love for nature, photography, health & fitness, wellness, and spirituality. She helps those who suffer from anxiety & negative thinking to become healthier in mind-body-spirit. Her own personal journey has led her to the  study and practice of mindfulness, health, wellness, yoga, spirituality, sound healing, meditation, and personal development for over 20 years. Get mindfulness, meditation, and personal development tips in her Free Natural Mind Healing Report.