Meditation

A) Take note of how you feel right now:

I feel so stressed out and tired.  I feel exhausted and just want to take a nap but I’m so afraid of sleeping right through the rest of my day.  I also feel a little bit tense and my eyes feel heavy.

B) Anxiety: 4.5

C) Tension: 6.5

I feel a lot of tension in my arms and lower body.  (I did a ton of walking today :P)

1. Reassess your mood on the chart.

I feel calm and relaxed, a little bit tired still but much calmer.  I also feel a lot less edgy but I’m still a little bit tense.

2. Reassess your level of anxiety from 1 to 10.

3.5

C. Reasses your level of physical tension and rate it from 1 to 10.

4, when I was asked to focus on certain parts of my body I almost felt tension releasing.

IV. Describe the experience– What type of meditation did you choose? Describe what was going on in your mind and your body, what kind of thoughts and sensations did you experience during the meditation? Were there any challenging or frustrating aspects of the experience, and if so, what were they? Would you try this again in the future? Why or why not?

I choose a simple guided meditation because I’ve never done anything like meditation before and want to start with the basics.  At first it felt so weird to meditate.  My mind just wanted to think about everything else and I wanted to just get up and move.  At first it was very frustrating but soon became very relaxing.  I think I would try doing meditation again but not by using a recording.  So much was going around while I tried to meditate that it was a bit stressful.  I was also really tired so after mediating I ended up taking a nap and I’m afraid that might have changed the way I viewed the experience.  Next time around I want to register for a Wednesday class to get the true experience.