Here's where it started

I have been feeling off kilter lately. For a long time really. I feel unstable. I am just being carried along by my life and I want live with more intention. I have always been on a spiritual path in one way or another, or at least this path has presented itself to me and I have not yet chosen to walk down it completely. I like to cut through the forest and get lost often. I have been blessed with sweat lodges, spiritual healers, sage grass, sweet grass, energy healing, body work....and yet I have never fully immersed myself in these things. Perhaps more than your average Jane but not much. I am not sure that it is my path to do so, but I am equally unsure that it isn't.
The reason I am writing this page is because I would like to really walk the path that I have been walking near to but not on for all of these years. I want to step into my path before I lose sight of it altogether. I want to live deeper, with more intention, more grace and more beauty. I want my cup to overflow and spill out to be shared with the people who come into my life. I want to realize my full potential.

I have decided to try meditation and I've also decided that I would share this attempt with whoever may chose to read about it. I am using this outlet to create some accountability for myself, to follow through with what I start. I hope, more than anything, to gain clarity. I believe it is clarity that will help me to find my path and meditation will help me to stick with it.

The Plan:
Practice each meditation style listed below for every day for 1 week each.  I have started out with 15 minutes 1xper day. My goal is to work up to 20 minutes 2x per day. 

1: Binaural Beats Meditation   2: Mantra Meditation   3: Visualization Meditation  4: In the Moment Meditation  5: Spiritual Meditation  6: Activity Meditation  7: Quiet Mind Meditation   8: Guided Meditation   9: Walking Meditation  10: Breathing Meditation

~M

"Meditation is very important. It has a very high objective - to take us away from this world of suffering into the world of happiness, joy and Bliss. It is a method, a discipline, that we have to follow very discreetly and if we follow it properly we will find that meditation helps us to discover ourselves, what we really are. As we get deeper into meditation we come nearer to the Source of our Being."

                                                                                                -Swami Nirliptananda