I Don't Know How to Meditate
Meditation seems to be that word so many of us hear, yet so many decide it is not for them. I have heard from clients, "I can't focus", “I've done it and it changes nothing", “I don't have the time", “I have taken classes and it's just not for me", “I have ADD”. The list goes on. I am passionate about guiding clients through meditation and showing how simple it can be. Meditation can be done any time of the day and anywhere you might be. You don't have to sit cross legged on the floor, burning incense and chanting OM.
There are many benefits of meditation. You can easily do a search on Google to learn the benefits. For me, the most important benefit is releasing the body of stress. Stress has so many unhealthy effects to the body. It can effect our sleeping, eating, digestion, concentration, motivation and many other challenges the body may experience.
The world we are living in now is causing so much uncertainty in our day-to-day lives that it’s easy for the body to get stressed out. How do you move through the day without hearing some type of news that upsets you? Over the past two + years our entire way of moving through the world has changed. Friends and family members who you once embraced are no longer communicating with you for a variety of reasons. The job you once had no longer exist, or if it does you are working remotely while trying to manage your kids and family life. The moment something seems to be changing for the better, another piece of news comes across your radar and you feel you are being shot down again. I know, I get it, I have been there, I am there now!
So what do you do? How do you handle it without snapping at someone, or grabbing a drink, or start to eat unhealthy foods or your body starts to show you that the dis-ease you are experiencing is causing some type of disease in your body?
You find a moment, a moment that belongs only to you. Not even your phone is invited to be near you.
Take the moment now to sit in silence with no movement. Feel how your body feels. Do you feel tension? Are there areas of your body where you are feeling discomfort? Are you feeling stressed with your mind wondering with a hundred thoughts? Are you feeling agitated to just feeling how your body is feeling? Now take a breath.
Take another breath. Close your eyes. Now take another breath. Feel your body now.
Now put your tongue on the roof of your mouth. As you breath out imagine your breath releasing through the middle of your chest. Breath in, anyway you want, now breath out through the middle of your chest. Do this 20 times.
Now how are you feeling? More relaxed? Did you loose count? Are you feeling calmer?
Continue this over the next week, several times per day if you can. Try this as a way to fall asleep.
I vision your body becoming more at ease. If you would like to book an appointment via phone or Zoom, I would love to guide you into a place of peace.