December Meditation Challenge

In an effort to set a positive habit for the new year, I'm planning to re-do a 30 day meditation challenge in December: https://darebee.com/challenges/meditation-challenge.html

Other people are welcome to join me for accountability or encouragement. There's nothing really special about the challenge I've linked to, so if you have a slightly different plan for the month, that's cool with me.

Sounds like a wonderful idea. I do a daily Tai Chi Meditation followed by a breathing and Force meditation. I think this will be great to make sure I don’t skip any days.

Sounds like fun. I'm in.

We have set up a space for this specifically in the discord at discord.gg/akDBNbu . Anyone participating can feel free to use the space to gather, support one another, and share progress. It'll be lovely to see you there. It should save you having to pop onto the darebee site if you're on the road, and help you keep your goal.

Good luck!

Thanks, Twigga!

Glad to have you with me, Silvermane and Arisaig!

Twigga wrote: We have set up a space for this specifically in the discord at discord.gg/akDBNbu . Anyone participating can feel free to use the space to gather, support one another, and share progress. It'll be lovely to see you there. It should LSO save you having to pop onto the darebee site if you're on the road, and help you keep your goal.

Good luck!

I'm not sure what you said at the end there, but thanks! I've used discord like one time and I cannot say that I am much for it. Is there some place else that we can check in at by chance?

Silvermane wrote: I'm not sure what you said at the end there, but thanks! I've used discord like one time and I cannot say that I am much for it. Is there some place else that we can check in at by chance?

I'll try to make sure to check in on this thread as well.

Ha ha ha! The "LSO" would come from a combination phone typo and my passion for the London Symphony Orchestra...

The council supported discord is not meant as a replacement for the main site here at TotJO, just a flexible and responsive side support.

I'm in!!

Meditation Challenge , Day 1 - 10 minutes done!

How was yours?

Done.

Day 1 Complete - 7 minutes for Tai Chi Exercise Meditation and 8 minutes for Breathing Meditation.

On a random side note, my dogs freaked out when I started to do the Tai Chi. :lol:

Meditation Challenge, Day 2
=1 minute equal breathing
=5 minutes meditation

Hoping to do a longer session later, but this will do for now.

Day 2: Things were a little more challenged due to some issues that arose today. My thoughts this day were jumbled and frustrated with some letters I got from our rental management company about our annual inspection and the things they are demanding us to fix and another company looking to garnish my checks again. These things have made the day a little more difficult and while I am trying not to stress over it, I kept finding myself getting more and more frustrated. The meditation helped to calm me down and hopefully not make myself sick with stress again. We shall see what tomorrow brings. I did the Tai Chi meditation within 5 minutes and the Breathing Meditation only lasted for about 4 minutes. It was a bit of a struggle to keep my mind focused.

Meditation Challenge, Day 3
=Backup & Restore
=10 minutes meditation

Day 3: Due to passing a rather painful kidney stone and the movements causing high amounts of pain, I was unable to complete the Tai Chi Meditation. I did get 10 minutes on the Breathing Meditation. Actually helped to control the pain and got me to relax a little bit and actually passed the kidney stone about 30 minutes after that.

I imagine that was tough Silvermane, and I'm glad this could help! Thanks for keeping up with your posts!

This is so wonderful! I remember being part of one of the challenge groups about three years ago and it was a huge help to me at the time. I think this is exactly what I need (even if I am a few days late).

Hop right in wherever you're at Locksley! It's lovely to have more folks along for the ride!

I'm really awful at doing updates. I do it, I then just don't post about it. done day 3 and 4.