This week I attempted another
shot at meditation. It didn’t go well. I wasn’t crazy over the one we did in
class, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about doing meditation so I gave
it another try. I took a class called Be at
lifetime fitness, which is a meditation class. I hated it. I only got about 15
minutes into it before I snuck out and left. It has us trying to focus on our
breathing, than visualizing objects, feeling out body parts in space, blah blah
blah… I don’t really have the attention span for this and I felt like I was
wasting my time. Maybe I should try it for a shorter period of time and then
work up to an hour-long class or maybe meditation isn’t really my thing.
I tried another wake up class this week. I went in with no coffee or caffeine of any sort in order to see if it would truly wake me up. We started with some breathing and meditation to “wake up our mind”. We were supposed to visualize our day. What we were going to do, what we have to get done, stuff like that. We then moved into our sun salutations, which was a great way to work out all the stiffness and achiness from our nights sleep. I for one always wake up with a stiff back cause I sleep on my stomach and this was an excellent way to quickly loosen that up. After the sun salutations we moved on to other poses that apparently help your body get ready for the day. This class really does energize you and prepare you for the day, but I don’t think I can do without my coffee. If I incorporate both I might have the best wake up routine ever! I’m not really sure why type of yoga this was or what it was based after because it doesn’t seem to have a particular style like ...
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