This week, Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce reminds us of the basic why behind mindfulness meditation: We get off-kilter at various times throughout the day, and we need a way to pause and reconnect—with reality, with our senses, with our steady center. That’s what meditation helps us do.

This practice is called “Taking Your Seat,” and it’s perfect if you’re getting started with meditation, or if you just need a touchpoint during your day.

Barry Boyce is Founding Editor of Mindful and Mindful.org. He is a longtime meditation practitioner and teacher, as well as a professional writer and editor. Barry serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for a Mindful Society and the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, as well as on the advisory board of Peace in Schools, in Portland, Oregon.

The transcription of this guided meditation will be online and in our app at Mindful.org next week.

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Show Notes

Find more from Barry Boyce here.

Go Deeper

Mindful.org has a wealth of articles, research, and guided practices that can help you start or grow your meditation practice. You can start here:

• Connecting With Why You Meditate Can Fuel Your Motivation

• Calm and Steady: Simple Ways to Create the Habit of Mindfulness

• Do I Need to Meditate to Be Mindful?

• Formal vs. Informal Mindfulness: 2 Ways to Practice

For another approach to a beginner’s meditation, try: Beginner’s Body Scan Meditation

And more from Mindful here:

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