I need to be calmer; I am growing concerned about
the lunatic women that keeps sneaking in the house and frightening the
children. To be honest she seems slightly unhinged, it’s time for her to go.
We are all more stressed than ever. We stress about
the kids, work, world news, relationships, MONEY, time…and if you are like me
you even stress about being stressed! We love telling each other how stressed
we are, and equally we love telling each other not to stress about it! It seems
modern life for many of us, is all about
the STRESS.
So, in line with my wellness quest I believe I can
no longer afford to ignore the many stress relieving benefits of meditating! It’s
time to STOP…SIT…and … BREATHE
I have dabbled before. I tried guided group
meditation, exploring misty mountains and lush green fields. (I think this
appealed to my inherently lazy nature) and I liked it. But I left the group, as
you do, and although I tried to guide
myself up the mountain, it didn’t last long, I would fall asleep, start
planning my weekend or end up overanalysing the day’s events moving from
relaxed to anxious in one easy step.
Years later, when I had learnt what real anxiety
actually was, I believed a guided stroll up a misty mountain to confront my,
rather absent, spirit guide could be just the thing, so I joined another group.
But there was no misty mountain walks here. In a dusty front room in Surrey I
had encountered meditation of the Cooler
Shaker variety and had found my very own Would-Be GURU. I enjoyed
the melodic chanting and appreciated The Would-BE GURU's finesse on the guitar, but the
anaemic looking Polish crew, the Gurus over enthusiasm (GURU complex) and the
slightly dazed looking wife was enough to put me off my mantra. So, I stashed
my mala beads, and added meditation to my ever growing “must do” list.
More recently I have been focusing on mindful meditation, which concerns itself with being present, centring on the now and establishing awareness. It’s a nifty trick. We spend so much time in the past and in the future, to find oneself actually present can at first be quite alarming, yet without getting all POWER OF NOW on you – it is quite literally all that we have.
I don’t know why meditation is one habit I struggle
to form; I am usually so good at habit forming activities. For most of us Westerners
of a certain generation there is still a whiff of new age self-indulgence when
mention is made of having a medi (medi? What?...is that something like a
pedi??) Although along with many things so called New Age, it seems meditation
is going mainstream.
Maybe it is The Age of Awakening or maybe it is the
ever increasing body of quite astonishing evidence which is causing more and
more people to realise what our prehistoric ancestors even knew. It’s time to
get your Zen on! I don't believe we can't all find even an extra 10 minutes in our day to just sit quietly - get up earlier, go to bed later, turn off the TV, leave the room, go outside - MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! I know we can do it <3 <3 <3
My favourite reasons why you should start meditating today:
2. makes you happier
3. reduces stress
4. increases creativity
5. improves your sexlife
6. reduces blood pressure
7. boosts our immune systems
8. helps us handle pain
9. improves our sleep
1 prevents heart disease
and many, many more…
Till next time…
Love and Light
The Would-Be Wellness Guru
“oooooooommmmmmmmmmmmm”
"It did to my mind what going to
the gym did to my body — it made it both stronger and more flexible,” said Dr.
Hedy Kober, a neuroscientist who who studies the effects of mindfulness
meditation, which she has practiced for 10 years, at her lab at Yale University.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/meditation-health-benefits_n_3178731.html)
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