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I’ve been all internally drama-rama lately and in the midst of a particularly turmoil night over the weekend, I decided on three things I need to do to get myself unstuck. Top of the list? Meditate. It is simply the only thing I know that creates essential airspace between my brain and my mind.
If that sounds weird, what I mean is, it’s like I can scoot back just far enough to observe not just my thoughts but my patterns and dynamics and triggers instead of just being carried down the river willy-nilly. Whoosh. But I also know I’m a resistant little thing. So I made a deal: 10 minutes a day, no more, no less. And do it first thing in the morning. It’s a fabulous trick because I’m too slow to make up excuses in that drowsy half-lucid state. I’m allowed to pee, but not brush my teeth. And then I set my cell phone alarm and sit and breathe.
It’s the same idea as writing morning pages–taking full advantage of your mind in its least guarded, resistant, fearful state. I do nothing fancy, just keep gently returning to my breath every time I catch myself wandering. And so far, it’s lovely. And I’m re-realizing, essential as popping my vitamins and taking a shower.
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posted November 6, 2009 at 10:35 am
I douse myself with my aura cleansing essential oil spray,then sometimes put a spritz of angel blessings/sanctification spray on my crown. Sometimes I spray my hands with it and run them over my dogs, and then I thank God for stuff I’m grateful for. Then I take my herbs and vitamins for chronic reversed polarity (from master herbalist Keith Smith, check him out), and that’s about it. Oh, and I like to see what’s going on at my birdfeeder outside my bedroom window. There’s a huge woodpecker that comes, who’m I’ve named “Wilson.” I live in the country, and on occasion I’ve been lucky enough to receive a visitation from an owl, or an indigo blue/black raven, or even see a deer nursing her fawn. Lest it sounds like I live in a wonderland, illegal hunting abounds here, so I’m gearing up for that spiritually. But that’s a whole other post………….
posted November 6, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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posted November 9, 2009 at 5:53 am
Meditation CD does it for me. 27 minutes of binaural beats. Like getting two more hours of sleep.