A 30-Day Challenge Inspired by legendary meditation teacher, Joseph Goldstein.
Steady Your Mind.
Take just ten daily minutes for thirty days to steady your breath. Each breath trains your mind to be mindful, intentional, consistent, calm, and self-loving.
Anyone can meditate, leading to mindfulness, compassion, and self-love. If you get distracted or miss a day, simply begin again.
Watch the video on this page to understand the complete instructions from Joseph Goldstein.
Sit in a comfortable position.
Press the Start Timer button.
Close your eyes as you hear a deep chime.
Breathe calmly and steady your focus.
When you are distracted by a thought, give yourself grace and begin again.
A higher pitch chime will signal five minutes, followed by a deep chime to conclude your session.
📅 Set a calendar reminder to return to this page daily for 30 days (or as many as you wish).
🧘♂️ 10-Minute Meditation Challenge
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Try meditating to steady the breath for thirty days because a steady breath leads to a steady mind, that steadiness is a radical act of self-care and clarity, especially for Wise Squirrels.
Here’s why the practice matters:
🌬️ Steadiness on the Breath
The breath is always with you. It’s an anchor in every moment. By returning to it—again and again—you’re not escaping life, you’re learning how to meet it, one inhale and one exhale at a time.
🔁 Consistency Builds Trust
A 30-day commitment is less about perfection and more about patterning trust with yourself. Every time you sit down, you reinforce that your well-being matters and that you’re worth showing up for.
🎯 Intentionality Shapes Awareness
Meditation trains your attention. When you choose to breathe with awareness, you’re practicing living with intention. It shifts you from reaction to response. From scattered to centered.
🫁 One Breath at a Time
You don’t need to master a whole month. Just this breath. Then the next. Each one is a chance to return, to begin again. That’s the real training: presence, not performance.
🧠 Training the Mind Through the Body
The mind loves to run—into the past, into the future, into loops and worries. But the breath? The breath is always here. By steadying the breath, you gently teach the mind to settle where life actually is.
💡 Each Breath is a New Beginning
Before each breath, remember the intention of steadiness as Joseph Goldstein explains in the video on this page.
In 30 days, you won't just have a calmer breath—you'll likely have a more compassionate mind, more resilience in hard moments, and a deeper sense of connection to yourself.
Join us on this personal challenge for thirty days and see what happens.
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is on the guiding teachers’ Founders Council. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
Joseph first became interested in Buddhism as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand in 1965. Since 1967 he has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma and Tibet. He is the author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, A Heart Full of Peace, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, The Experience of Insight, and co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom and Insight Meditation: A Correspondence Course.