Meditation at a Yoga class

A) First, take note of the moods you’ve experienced.

–When I first woke up early at 6 a.m., I was exhausted, sleepy, and with no energy at all. Throughout the day, my mood elevated between being happy, to frustrated, and then to being bored. Towards the end of the night, I went right back to where I had started, exhausted.

B. Assess your overall level of anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10.

–To assess my overall anxiety, I would have to say its 4. Even though, I had a long day, the level of anxiety was at a decent level.

C) Assess the level of physical tension in your body- where do you notice the tension? Try rating your overall tension on a scale of 1 to 10.

–The level of physical tension is mostly on my shoulders, back and my calves. Level of tension would have to be a 6.

III) After you have finished your meditation, re-asses your state of mind and body.

A. Reassess your mood on the chart.

–(After yoga class, I felt like a whole new person, because I was happy, hopeful, confident, and ecstatic)

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

–(Level of anxiety dropped to 1, because my mind was free)
C. Reasses your level of physical tension and rate it from 1 to 10.

–(Level of tension also dropped to 2, especially the tension from my calves)

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 chose to meditate at a yoga class that was offered at my gym. When I first got there, I had a lot on my mind, and a lot of tension in my body. Trying to concentrate on the meditation was quiet difficult, because I was so restless, I just couldn’t get all the things that happened during the day out of my mind. So I thought, whats best then couple of deep breaths, and slowly trying to release all that was going on in my mind. I would definitely take yoga class again in the future,  because its a great experience. I did take yoga for 4 years in high school, and I think that, I felt like a whole new person, after every session, both my mind and my body were at a perfect state, no tension or anxiety at all.