Meditation Reflection

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a. Before starting the meditation exercise, I was feeling exhausted, confused, bored, overwhelmed because of the amount of school work, some slow classes, my job and some personal issues.

b. On a scale of 1 to 10, my anxiety level were a 9 by the time the day was over. I’ve been worried on how I will do in all of my classes. If I will do good in my first semester here at Baruch. I barely have the time to relax, which factors in as well.

c. In my body, majority of the physical tension seems to be in my neck and my chest area.. so it would be rated about 8. Under stress I tend to have a heavy feeling in my chest and it feels as though it is being squeezed.

III

a. After meditation, my moods were much more relaxed, happy, confident and more in focus than being all over the place. I was easily able to figure out a game plan on what I will do when and how and I have been working effectively on this assignment as well as multitasking with a few other tasks easily since.

b. My anxiety levels are now around 2 instead of the 9 before I started with the meditation.

c. My physical tension, I now feel as though there is a less burden in my chest and my neck doesn’t ache or feel as stiff as it was (No longer had the need to crack it). I would rate that now a 3.

IV

The meditation that I chose was the Guided Meditation by Ajahn Sundara. The reason why I chose this meditation was because it is always a good idea to start off with a proper guide in meditation. It allowed me to focus easily on one thing, which was to relax and ease the tensions in my body. At first it is tough to block out thoughts from racing through my mind but after a little while, those thoughts began to fade away. In the future when I am extremely stressed and exhausted or in a similar position such as I was earlier, I do see my self trying this exercise again. However, instead of it meditating alone; I would rather have another person also following the meditation. I would try this again because It is a great way to loosen up your muscles and it clears your mind and allows you to work much more effectively.