This Week's Mindful Morsel 🍪 | September 3, 2025 — making meditation accessible for you

Happy sweet Wednesday 💜

The past few weeks I’ve spent more time with my own meditation practice than I have in quite a while. I’m currently on week 4 of Juna Bobby’s Stress Relief Down to the Cellular Level series, (which is an excellent intro to autogenic training if you’re interested – check out weeks 1-3 first).

What I’m finding most remarkable is that with all the struggles I’ve had in the past month with my own self care and resourcing, I haven’t put meditation on the backburner, which is typically one of the first things I do. And since I’ve been sticking to it and investing significant time in it (thank you, Juna Bobby and myself), I notice that I’m using these same tools to help me fall asleep at night and to find a little more ease in my body throughout the day. 

Meditation gets this hard, inaccessible rep, and I think a lot of people don’t understand it or how to approach it. Most of us hold this notion that it’s supposed to be you sitting silent and perfect, with your mind not meandering anywhere else. That’s a hot and fast way to set yourself up for a sinking sense of failure. 

Case in point: I can’t just sit down to meditate. I will get antsy beyond belief and find a sudden urge to organize my cabinets instead.

Within the 8 limbs of yoga, the physical yoga practice is actually meant to help you prepare for meditation. Movement makes meditation practice more accessible (think of it like getting your wiggles out first), and if you’re not into yoga, any kind of movement can work. It also helps to drop any expectations. Loudly. And with a thud if you can. Meditation looks many different ways for different brains and people and settings and time constraints. So don’t lock yourself into an image you saw in pop culture somewhere. That’s just a disappointing misuse of imagination.

Instead, think of meditation as a tool for where you’re at and however you find yourself in that moment. Dive in where you are and give it a whirl with your own flavor. And in case you need another voice besides mine to remind you how accessible and valuable it is, check out this episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Jay’s Must-Listens: The Step-by-Step Guide to Meditation ANYONE Can Do (Eliminate Anxiety & Rewire Your Nervous System).

Feel free to share what you experience and help inspire others :)

With kind energy,