Stress is so unnecessary 99 percent of the time. Don’t ask me when is stress necessary, because I really don’t care about that right now. I have my suspicion that meditation is actually working for me. I like to believe that it has really got me chilling. I have listened to some of those guided meditations on You Tube with all these breathing exercises and visualization processes. There is no specific one that I am following. I do focus on my breathing, the in and the out, inhaling deeply sometimes and exhaling deeply sometimes. Other times, I just focus on them and be more chilled as well in my breathing, calming myself down. Sometimes I start yawning half way through it.
My favorite practice that I like to think works just fine is the E.A.S.Y techinque by Light Watkins. The accronym is easy to remember and it stands for Embrace, Accept, Surrender and Yield. Sounds like a very sound medititative experience already right? It is quiet easy to practice which is cool, but what is even more cooler is that we are allowed to scratch our nose or any other parts of our body during the meditation process should we feel like it. We can also adjust how our hands are placed, or adjust our butts to comfortably settle on whatever surface we are sitting on.
The whole practice is to get us into a state of relaxation, so we start from the top of our head focussing on each part of our body and than relaxing them along the way. When we drift, we acknowledge that and we get back in on the meditative ride. It’s that easy. I like to believe that however I do it, and how long I do it (my minimum is 6.5 minutes) it works in relaxing my body and mind.
We can mix and match whatever techniques to suit ourselves. There is a likelyhood that we don’t fully know ourselves well but when we find that something works for us, or we feel will work for us, then we should go ahead and try it.
Sometimes I like to add in a bit of the Chakra balancing meditation. Well the thing is I haven’t properly remembered what the colors of each individual Chakras (or power centers) are, and also where the exact location of each of the seven of them are. I would just go ahead and imagine these seven multicolored discs and start having them rotate clockwise one by one, and then voila I think my Chakras are being opened and balanced out. I like to believe that it works.
Oh and remember if you are going to open the Chakras you got to close them again. Chakra balancing is kind of like a washing machine, you wash your dirty clothes then you turn the machine off again, with the main objective having been to wear new clean and fresh smelling clothes after having the funky machine spin them around.
When I am pressed for time I would just settle for playing those relaxing or deep meditation sounds on You Tube to calm me down. I do this instead of listening to songs because they would exacerbate my jumpy and anxious mind. A song will be so good that I will be tripping, remembering stuffs and hurting. Silly I know, but sometimes, well very rarely these days (better be rarely, it’s 2020), it happens.
Its all about the energy. We all have energy, we are made up of energy so wherever we focus it towards and whatever we are going to do with it, the universe will bring us whatever matches it. I feel that the universe is very direct, whatever we are putting out there manifests and returns back to us. This is why I have been meditating, praying also – humbling myself and being grateful to the great God – and surrounding myself with positive things like friends and family, good books, positive podcasts and a good vision board. Oh I have a vision board at work where I sit 9 hours a day. A funky colleague at work called it a Mood Board, which is also correct because whenever I look at the board it makes me pay less attention to whatever nonsense that may surround me and I get to chill, calm down and feel powerful.
So let’s create moments in the day where we get to destress and calm down, and lets create spaces where we get the positive energy flowing, and our lifes vision rolling in towards us.
Kaliova 