It's not for everyone! While exploring essential oils I noticed a bracelet with lava rocks that held the oil so that you could have aromatherapy through out the day. I love my bracelet BTW. It is called a chakra bracelet. So I began exploring the meaning of chakra and learned about the meditation.
It was not the easiest experience. Calming your mind is a technique that I feel requires a lot of practice. The first thing you need to meditate is TIME. In our world of rushing around non stop your probably thinking...yeah right like I have time to sit in one place. I understand that view when I downloaded a chakra meditation program I looked at it and thought holy crap in order to do a complete meditation I need 70+ minutes without being interrupted. I have kids (two legged and four legged), grandkids, a spouse, work, house work, etc...the likely hood of not being interrupted is minimum to none. I still wanted to try it out. I had already downloaded a program for sleep meditation and loved it (my cat does too).
One night I knew I had at least enough time to do a couple levels of chakra so I began. I was almost done with the first 8 minutes or so and I began to notice my mind skipping away to other thoughts less and less. I began to feel as if i was floating and could see colors on my eye lids as if dancing to the music. My body was really beginning to relax, and thats when my cat decided that I was done. I have yet to make it past doing only a couple of Chakras at a time, but that little bit has helped me to feel more relaxed.
The most recent time that I chose to meditate was the time that showed me why so many people are turning to it as a way to help themselves in our messed up world. It was a rough day and I knew it would be from the moment I woke up and needed to get ready to go to the hospital for my daughters surgery. My concern for her, dealing with her father and his side of the family that hate me with a passion, and my daughters dislike of me right now was a little more than I thought I could handle. I wasn't going to allow those emotions to cause me regret should something have happened and I wasn't there. After she was back in surgery I settled down in a chair, plugged in my head phones, and began meditating right in the surgery waiting room. I knew I needed to escape my own mind and emotions even for a little while. I was really beginning to get a clear mind and all of a sudden I felt a need to open my eyes. At that moment was when my daughters father and his family came into the surgery waiting room on the side that I was sitting at. Many people walk in and out, but my body and mind made sure I was alert at that moment. When I resumed my meditation it was as if I hadn't stopped for that brief moment. I only meditated until I felt really relaxed and able to face the rest of the day. Six hours after she went back for surgery she was finally being released and I was able to separate myself from the emotional situation. I had been able to hold myself together, be polite when I didn't want to be, and most of all not allow my emotions to overwhelm me. Your probably thinking congrats you were able to not be a cry baby but that doesn't mean meditation was the key. While writing this I was trying to figure out how I would be able to state facts regarding it versus just emotions, then I remembered that I was wearing my gear fit! I went back to the day of the surgery on the program and looked at my heart rate. My heart rate was at 79 when I was at home, while sitting at the hospital waiting for my daughter and her fathers family it was at 98. Around the time they arrived it was 115 and stayed between 115-101 until I did my meditation. What was it during meditation? It dropped...98 then 91 then 89 then 88. It remained between 98-88 the three plus hours we were all in one small little room together waiting for her to be released. It stayed low even though it hurt and upset me the things that my daughter had said, and the peoples behaviors that I was around. Once I was away from the situation, able to talk to family that understood the situation, and was able to cry it went up to 102.
You can believe what you want but for me I am going to keep trying meditation.
It was not the easiest experience. Calming your mind is a technique that I feel requires a lot of practice. The first thing you need to meditate is TIME. In our world of rushing around non stop your probably thinking...yeah right like I have time to sit in one place. I understand that view when I downloaded a chakra meditation program I looked at it and thought holy crap in order to do a complete meditation I need 70+ minutes without being interrupted. I have kids (two legged and four legged), grandkids, a spouse, work, house work, etc...the likely hood of not being interrupted is minimum to none. I still wanted to try it out. I had already downloaded a program for sleep meditation and loved it (my cat does too).
One night I knew I had at least enough time to do a couple levels of chakra so I began. I was almost done with the first 8 minutes or so and I began to notice my mind skipping away to other thoughts less and less. I began to feel as if i was floating and could see colors on my eye lids as if dancing to the music. My body was really beginning to relax, and thats when my cat decided that I was done. I have yet to make it past doing only a couple of Chakras at a time, but that little bit has helped me to feel more relaxed.
The most recent time that I chose to meditate was the time that showed me why so many people are turning to it as a way to help themselves in our messed up world. It was a rough day and I knew it would be from the moment I woke up and needed to get ready to go to the hospital for my daughters surgery. My concern for her, dealing with her father and his side of the family that hate me with a passion, and my daughters dislike of me right now was a little more than I thought I could handle. I wasn't going to allow those emotions to cause me regret should something have happened and I wasn't there. After she was back in surgery I settled down in a chair, plugged in my head phones, and began meditating right in the surgery waiting room. I knew I needed to escape my own mind and emotions even for a little while. I was really beginning to get a clear mind and all of a sudden I felt a need to open my eyes. At that moment was when my daughters father and his family came into the surgery waiting room on the side that I was sitting at. Many people walk in and out, but my body and mind made sure I was alert at that moment. When I resumed my meditation it was as if I hadn't stopped for that brief moment. I only meditated until I felt really relaxed and able to face the rest of the day. Six hours after she went back for surgery she was finally being released and I was able to separate myself from the emotional situation. I had been able to hold myself together, be polite when I didn't want to be, and most of all not allow my emotions to overwhelm me. Your probably thinking congrats you were able to not be a cry baby but that doesn't mean meditation was the key. While writing this I was trying to figure out how I would be able to state facts regarding it versus just emotions, then I remembered that I was wearing my gear fit! I went back to the day of the surgery on the program and looked at my heart rate. My heart rate was at 79 when I was at home, while sitting at the hospital waiting for my daughter and her fathers family it was at 98. Around the time they arrived it was 115 and stayed between 115-101 until I did my meditation. What was it during meditation? It dropped...98 then 91 then 89 then 88. It remained between 98-88 the three plus hours we were all in one small little room together waiting for her to be released. It stayed low even though it hurt and upset me the things that my daughter had said, and the peoples behaviors that I was around. Once I was away from the situation, able to talk to family that understood the situation, and was able to cry it went up to 102.
You can believe what you want but for me I am going to keep trying meditation.