Meditating...

Why meditate? Simple. To improve your health and well-being... Hey! You might even learn a few new things about yourself...

My reiki teacher once said that “praying is you talking to God” and “meditating is you listening to God.” I love this…MEDITATING IS YOU LISTENING TO GOD...

It’s so important to take some time, even as little as fifteen or twenty minutes a day, and just dedicate this time to yourself. Meditating is a way to assess and listen to YOU. It allows you to explore the things that may be unnecessarily occupying and cluttering your mind. Meditation can also provide means to resolving the questions to problems you may be having. By allowing your mind and body to slow down, you might find the answers you are looking for. After a while you may even notice that your reactions to certain people and certain situations that upset you are different, you feel you are calmer and even less angrier.

Once a week during my lunch hour I meet with a mediation group at work. My meditation instructor is right, it is easier to meditate with a group. So if you can get together with couple of friends, try it.

But many of us don't have time to meet with a group of people to meditate. Therefore, find a place where and time when no one can interrupt you. This could be before you get out of bed in the morning, before you go to sleep, on your break, on your lunch hour, or even when you feel like you need a few minutes to yourself.

While you meditate make sure to breathe. If you are having trouble quieting your mind, pay attention to your breathing. It's funny, this was the first thing I noticed about me...how my breathing was erratic. I usually try to meditate right before I go to bed. It’s unbelievable the difference I feel, especially when I am having trouble falling asleep because of ten million things going through my mind. Just couple of minutes into my meditation and I start to feel the tenseness of my body relax...

Below is a link to a short video clip from Mayo Clinic that will get you started and on the way to meditation...so make yourself comfortable in your chair and begin...

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/meditation/MM00623