December Meditation Challenge

When I do my Breathing Meditation it is counting in my head in sets of 3. So I breathe in and count from 1 to 6. Pause a second. Breathe out and count from 6 to 1. I do this three times. It also helps to envision the number in your minds eye as well. Then I breathe in and count from 1 to 7. Pause and breathe out and count from 7 to 1. Again, I do this 3 times. Then I go to a count of 8 and repeat the process. You can go to 9 and 10 counts if you so desire. I usually go to 9 and do it three times and then go back to the 7 count and just do it until I feel ready to stop. I use the 7 count for the 7 Chakras.

Welcome aboard, Chinzu!

I was taught that sometimes the practice is just sitting still while your brain does its thing and having that frustrating experience.

The first thing I'll do if I find my mind drifting, though, is to check my posture. Straighten the spine while I inhale, relax my legs while I exhale. Repeat a couple of times. Then bring my concentration back to my center.

If I really can't concentrate (a bit ago during the first week after a friend passed for example), I will get out beads and chant a mantra out loud to force everything else down.

I just in the past week finished the best book on meditation I've ever read. It's called "How To Meditate" by Lawrence LeShan. He draws parallels between meditation systems from a number of traditions, and provides examples that are not bound to any specific tradition. My library system had a copy, yours might as well.

20 minutes for today! Almost through the month!

Does sipping coffee while murmuring silently to myself about wanting to be back in bed for a half hour count as meditation?

No?

Half hour of corpse yoga it is then. ;p

Kasumi wrote: Welcome aboard, Chinzu!

I was taught that sometimes the practice is just sitting still while your brain does its thing and having that frustrating experience.

The first thing I'll do if I find my mind drifting, though, is to check my posture. Straighten the spine while I inhale, relax my legs while I exhale. Repeat a couple of times. Then bring my concentration back to my center.

If I really can't concentrate (a bit ago during the first week after a friend passed for example), I will get out beads and chant a mantra out loud to force everything else down.

I just in the past week finished the best book on meditation I've ever read. It's called "How To Meditate" by Lawrence LeShan. He draws parallels between meditation systems from a number of traditions, and provides examples that are not bound to any specific tradition. My library system had a copy, yours might as well.

Thanks for advises ! I will definitely try that !

Day 2 : 5 min meditation + 15 min martial art positions combined with breathing Technics

Thank you CenturyLink for your epic fail that is service and the lack thereof for the last two days.

12/27 - 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes last night of Breathing Meditation

12/28 - 10 minutes Breathing Meditation. 3rd morning in a row of waking up nauseated... blah...

20 minutes for today!

10 more minutes during lunch.

Fifteen minutes of visualisation meditation. really looking forward to a proper weekend.

5 minutes Breathing Meditation tonight and 5 of Tai Chi

Forty mins of Corpse Yoga.

10 minutes yesterday and then I came down with a cold. We'll see if today is any better.

About 10 minutes today making it 30 days! Yay!
Then I stopped because my nose was running, instead of going for the 30 minutes I had planned.

10 minutes this morning trying to minimize migraine. 10 minutes tonight try to minimize nausea from said migraine. Haven’t had a migraine in almost 6 months...

Lost track of time last night during my corpse yoga.Light projection sometime in the middle of the session. But really happy with it, been ages since I was able to.

30 minutes for day 31!

Thank you everyone for participating with me! Everyone has done so well!

15 minutes on lunch. Great job everyone and awesome team work with this! I’m so happy I was apart of it.