This week has been really unusually busy and well, I flopped. I really hoped to have had a plan formulated by now. I am still working on that though. I did come up with a few things that will be helpful along the way.
Yesterday while house cleaning and listening to NPR I heard a story about some religious group in the middle east. It got me thinking about how different religions meditate, through song, prayer, dance, and so on. I started thinking about the ways I have meditated with ease in the past. Sewing, dancing, massage, cycling and snowboarding have all allowed a certain level of meditation for me. Visualization and guided meditation also work well. I want to go deeper though and I would like to be able to get to a place where I can get into a meditative state silently, without movement and on my own (no guided mediation). Although guided meditation will be part of my beginning phase.
I tried to listen to some guided meditations on youtube. They were all mostly annoying.
So I am giving myself 1 more week to formulate a plan and start it. My general plan is to pick from a number of techniques and chose 1 per week for as long as I have techniques I would like to try. Then I will dive back into whichever technique(s) work best.
I am heading to the Pow Wow, Julyamsh, tomorrow and I hope to have a chance to speak to some Native Americans from different tribes about how they meditate. If nothing else I bet I will hear some great stories! and I know I will hear some incredible music and see some beautiful dance.
Next Monday I know I will be off and running with my first weeks choice.
~M
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