In fleshing out my Get Zen 4 week program, I've been "taking" it myself. After all, you have to test it out, right? I had started with one of each practice, pranayama , meditation, and asana, but last week my husband and I came down with Covid. So there went the asana, I'm too easily fatigued, and while I'm still working on pranayama, it's certainly not where I'd like it to be. This is a perfect example of how perfect yoga is, when one limb (see the Applying the 8 Limbs of Yoga workshop) isn't accessible, the others are there waiting.
Mediation has been my go to over the past week or so, and I've been playing with different methods, focusing my attention on one thing, sound, guided, etc. While I provide guided meditations on the website, know that you can use the simple observation of your breath to bring you into this state as well. As you play, you may find that neither of these methods is for you. As an example, my meditation today focused on the sensation of a smile. It guided me through a smile in my eyes. Check. To a smile on my lips. Check. And then to a smile in my heart. Well, ok, I feel that, but then to hold sensations and feelings in the heart in this space and to let them float there. What? So I started over and tried again. Eyes, lips, heart...nope. I learned this one wasn't for me right now. You'll find the same for yourself, and that's totally ok. You may feel like you're not doing it right, or can't stay attentive for the whole 5 minutes. That's totally ok. Do it anyway. I promise, it pays off.
Namaste
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