Oh my gosh, I love this topic because I have recently discovered the POWER of YOGA! I LOVE yoga, it's great for before and after I study, it like clears my mind and just makes my body feel so good. I use to get headaches when I was studying and now it's like a ritual of mine. Do yoga before I study to get engery going through out my body and relive stress and afterwards I just feel like I have consumed the right information, therefore making me feel productive. I won't go into my eating habits, but I follow Kimberly Snyder's teaching on food that are natural and make you feel GREAT, she is a nutritionist! I love it! Anyways thats what I do! :) I spend my days, cleaning, researching topics of health and experimenting with natural homemade beauty products, or I experiment with herbs and learn about vegetables and how to grow them. It seems the more I research about the body the more intone I become with my own and I hope to never have someone code some of these codes to me cause it's kind of SCARY! lol! So, now I'm in a mind set to find out how not to get a heart condition or lung failure or all sorts of things, hahahaha!
Of course my life is different from most, but this discussion makes me so happy to read and know that "Man, there are mom's that have more challenges then I do" and not just moms, but fathers too! I love this topic! I encourage everyone to read Kimberly Snyder's book just because I feel more energy and clarity through out the day! I never sluggish because I bought the natural detox pills she has and natural probiotics that helps with my gastric system! hahaha! I sound so hippie I swear! :)
If I were to get in the Lotus position they would have to call an ambulance to undo me, but I have a similar experience with guided meditation. Guided meditation isn’t like Eastern Meditation where you try to stop thinking; as a matter of fact it is just the opposite. It is where you get relaxed enough to become hyper-focused. Guided meditation can be anything from reading a passage in your religion’s book and then closing your eyes and reenacting the scene in your mind with pictures and having some “artistic freedom” to fill in the gaps (this is what Catholics do when they pray the rosary), to listening to a recording complete with sound effects that accompany a story that you visualize as it is narrated. Take for example the library I have from Meditainment.com In one meditation you paddle a canoe down a gentle flowing river to a path that leads up through the trees from the bank and leads you to a field with all types of wildlife, and then you watch a sunset, and then go back the way you came. As you’re in the canoe you hear the paddle in the water, and hear buzzing from mosquitoes and such. You hear the canoe land on the bank and the narrator tells you to follow the path, etc. through the end of the meditation. It is a serious stress buster, relaxer, and it really helps you to focus when you’re done. I love them. I try to do one around midday and then fall to sleep to one designed for that purpose. Think of it as a guided day dream. Although you can find short ones for free, I enjoy them most when they are about 20 minutes long. This really gives plenty of time to get relaxed and focused and not have to “wake up” abruptly. I also pray the rosary each night too. A lot of people misunderstand this and do not realize we are meditating (reliving the events of the Christian gospels from memory and viewing the story in pictures) and just think we are repeating prayers mindlessly over and over. The prayers are like a background rhythm that keeps you focused.
hahaha lol thats funny and interesting!