Tuesday, May 3, 2011

EXTRA CREDIT


I decided to go to the Zen meditation on Sunday. I absolutely love meditation. I do have experience with meditation and in fact my boyfriend meditates daily. He actually just got back from a 10-day meditation retreat in Georgia called Southeast Vipassana Center. He had an amazing time and said he now has complete mind control! Meditation is really healing and can lead to only positive experiences. I think its good to just work on yourself and really get to know every cell in your body. I thought the experience was going to be like the retreat that Taylor (my boyfriend) went to – but I also thought it wouldn’t be as intense.  Although I have practiced meditation I do know how hard it is. This time in particular my mind just kept on coming up with distractions that I couldn’t get off of. I think that is the hardest part about meditation and to become completely awareness is pure bliss. I wanted to wear clothes that covered up because that is another thing that can be distracting! Overall the experience was positive and I plan on doing the same Vipassana meditation retreat in the near future! I heard it would change my life! I want to get ride of the constant chatter in my mind – all it does is cause stress and negatively. I think I am half way there because I am conscious of it but I want it gone.