{"id":28170,"date":"2015-06-25T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=28170"},"modified":"2015-06-25T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:50:25","slug":"4-meditation-tips-for-new-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ro\/journal\/4-meditation-tips-for-new-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Meditation Tips for New Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From conception to college, there isn’t a stage of the parenting journey that doesn’t come with some amount of stress. If the tried-and-true methods for dealing with it\u2014whiskey, some exercise, moving to another country and changing your name\u2014aren’t working, you might want to consider meditation.<\/p>\n

Andy Puddicombe knows that you might dismiss the suggestion as something for Buddhists or stoned college kids or stoned college kids who think they’re Buddhists. That’s why he created\u00a0Headspace, an app that translates the core principles of meditation into a series of accessible exercises, stripped of any New Age connotations. In the past few years,\u00a0researchers have found evidence<\/a>\u00a0that meditation can help with everything from increased emotional capacity to productivity, but if you’re still skeptical, consider Puddicombe’s pedigree: He spent 10 years training as a buddhist monk in Nepal and Tibet before returning to his native England and going to clown college. You read that right.<\/p>\n

In addition to being the most affable and persuasive advocate for meditation in daily life that you’re likely to come across, Puddicombe is also a new father\u2014an experience that proved to him the ideas behind Headspace are probably more useful for parents than anyone else. You can read all about it his new book,\u00a0The Headspace Guide To A Mindful Pregnancy<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/i>but here are a few quick tips to get you started on the road to a (slightly) less chaotic parenting experience.<\/p>\n

1. Carve Out 10 Minutes A Day<\/h3>\n

„It’s not an hour. You don’t have to sit cross-legged, there’s no incense or any of the hippy stereotype stuff that scares people off,” says Puddicombe. He recommends 10 minutes a day, in the morning if you can swing it, and all you need is a quiet, comfortable place to sit. Granted, that’s no small thing for a parent, but one of the great things about stripping all the New Age pretension from meditation is that no one can judge you if you do it on the can.<\/p>\n