Eyes Open Practice | Meditate While Active to Calm Your Mind & Boost Focus
The only thing I want you to take away from this post is this: the OneBreathIn Practice is not a sit-down, close-your-eyes, palms-in-the-air meditation. This is an inner meditation — a pause from within while you are fully active in life. You do not stop what you’re doing to practice this. Instead, you shift your mind’s focus toward the world you wish to see. It could be something as simple as completing a task well, imagining your family laughing at dinner, or seeing your community thrive. The practice is to pause inside, visualize, cultivate, and mentally create what you want to see. At the top of the hour, a deep breath in plants that vision in your heart. This is the art of the inner pause, while still fully active on the outside.
While exploring this, I wanted a single word to describe meditation from the inside while being active on the outside. To my surprise, I found 18 words that capture this essence — each describing the Eyes Open, active, visualizing state of OneBreathIn.
Activana – active + nirvana; a state of meditative peace while in motion. A mother packing her child’s lunch, mentally visualizing her child’s joy while learning and safety throughout the day.
Meditivus – meditation + vivus; alive and meditative. A mail carrier delivering letters, cultivating calm and connection in each home visited.
Vivana – living + nirvana; fully engaged meditation. A teacher instructing her class, visualizing each student’s future filled with creativity, curiosity, and opportunities.
Movana – motion + nirvana; meditation in movement. A firefighter moving through a building, visualizing the structure safe and whole, the people within secure and cared for.
Zenact – Zen + act; embodying Zen while acting. A police officer making an arrest while imagining peace, care, opportunities, and a change of heart for the person and their family.
Dynamiad – dynamic + meditation; meditative flow in action. A CEO interacting with employees, visualizing employees happy on the job, communities thriving, and customers prospering alongside them.
Eunoia – Greek for “beautiful thinking”; conscious clarity while active. A student studying while imagining solutions to problems that could benefit society.
Vibrana – vibration + nirvana; harmonized energy in motion. A chef preparing meals, mentally cultivating joy and nourishment for those who will eat the food.
Meditique – meditation + unique; singular state of mindful action. An artist painting while envisioning their creation bringing inspiration and calm to others.
Activae – active + aurae; conscious energy while performing daily life. A nurse walking the hospital hallways, visualizing patients healed, calm, and cared for.
Fluxana – flux + nirvana; flowing, continuous meditation. A writer typing a report while envisioning clarity and solutions spreading through their readers’ lives.
Serenact – serenity + act; calm presence embedded in activity. A bus driver navigating traffic while cultivating patience and safety for all passengers.
Mindara – mind + aura; awareness and mindfulness during action. A professor teaching a class, visualizing each student’s ideas growing into projects that change the world.
Luminact – luminous + act; bringing conscious light into life. A volunteer handing out supplies while imagining communities empowered and thriving.
Harmovive – harmony + vive; harmonized living awareness. A musician performing while envisioning the audience connected, inspired, and uplifted by the music.
Calmara – calm + aura; serene, focused presence in action. A parent soothing a child while visualizing harmony and love filling their home.
Zenara – Zen + aura; meditative clarity while moving through life. A person experiencing trauma taking their pause, visualizing safety, healing, and hope amidst chaos.
Activara – active + aura; vibrant, embodied meditation in daily living. A runner on their morning jog, cultivating inner clarity and imagining the positive impact of their presence in the world.
Each of these words captures a facet of OneBreathIn — the inner pause while the outside remains active, creating calm, clarity, and virtuous visions that ripple through your life and the world. Every breath, every mental creation, every shift in attention plants the seeds of a better day, a better life, and a better world.
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