Meditation can seem a very difficult task. The truth is it only takes a moment. If ever you have: taken a deep breath and sighed, looked out at nature, taken a moment to think a pleasant thought, done an act of random kindness. All of these things are forms of meditation. Meditation is taking the time (how ever brief or extended) to drift away from self focus.
When I was in yoga Instructor school, my children began to call it medicating. My husband was deployed, I had an awesome membership to a 24 hour fitness place (that the keypad kept locking on me). It was an awesome retreat for me, centrally located so that I could stop in between errands or when I had 20 minutes before the next mom/chauffeur task. Six times in 2 months I had tried to fix the keypad situation. This was to be the final try. I drove up kiddos in the car, parked, put my hands on the steering wheel and closed my eyes taking in a deep breath. My kiddos started saying "don't whatever it is, if it is so stressful that you have to medicate before you do it then don't." I then requested that they not call meditating, medicating which forever sealed what they would refer to it as in public.
Take a moment. Allow yourself to be in this time, in this place. Realize that you have chosen to set aside this time and allow yourself to exist. Let the concerns of the day fall to the side, they will still be there to pick back up in a moment.
Roll you shoulders three times backward, then three times forward... take a breath in and exhale.
As you breathe in, feel the breath wrapping around the stressors and toxins.
As you exhale the breath, allow the toxins and stressors to release.
Allow for the sense of the moment. Allow yourself to feel the difference between one moment and the next. Then allow yourself to feel the space within that moment.
My kiddos were blessed to figure out that certain things call for meditation, in grade school. I was equally blessed to figure it out at 36. Whenever it happens that you figure out Meditating helps, it is a blessing.
When I was in yoga Instructor school, my children began to call it medicating. My husband was deployed, I had an awesome membership to a 24 hour fitness place (that the keypad kept locking on me). It was an awesome retreat for me, centrally located so that I could stop in between errands or when I had 20 minutes before the next mom/chauffeur task. Six times in 2 months I had tried to fix the keypad situation. This was to be the final try. I drove up kiddos in the car, parked, put my hands on the steering wheel and closed my eyes taking in a deep breath. My kiddos started saying "don't whatever it is, if it is so stressful that you have to medicate before you do it then don't." I then requested that they not call meditating, medicating which forever sealed what they would refer to it as in public.
Take a moment. Allow yourself to be in this time, in this place. Realize that you have chosen to set aside this time and allow yourself to exist. Let the concerns of the day fall to the side, they will still be there to pick back up in a moment.
Roll you shoulders three times backward, then three times forward... take a breath in and exhale.
As you breathe in, feel the breath wrapping around the stressors and toxins.
As you exhale the breath, allow the toxins and stressors to release.
Allow for the sense of the moment. Allow yourself to feel the difference between one moment and the next. Then allow yourself to feel the space within that moment.
My kiddos were blessed to figure out that certain things call for meditation, in grade school. I was equally blessed to figure it out at 36. Whenever it happens that you figure out Meditating helps, it is a blessing.
