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A. Feelings before meditiation

At first I was exhausted, overwhelmed, and love struck.

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

My anxiety was about a 6. My papers for 3 of my classes are due today. ( Tuesday 21,2011)

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.

MOst of the tension is in my back, shoulders, and knees.

III. After you have finished your meditation, re-asses your state of mind and body.
A. Reassess your mood on the chart.

After the meditation I was more calm, relaxed, love struck and my legs did not hurt as much ( I don’t really know which emotion that is I guess relief lol)

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

After the meditation my anxiety dropped to about a level 2.  This meditation was a whole body meditation and it relieved majority of the emotions I was previously feeling.
C. Reasses your level of physical tension and rate it from 1 to 10.

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?

The meditation that I choose was ” Guided Sensation: Body Sweep by Leigh Brasington”.  At first It was really hard to concentrate on what he was saying because I was really focused on trying to perfect my papers that were due for each class and also because I found out my grandmother was just diagnosed with cancer which hit me pretty hard. ( this is why I choose to do this meditation now because of the many things that were on my mind ).  During the meditation what helped me the most what the concentrating on my breathing.  I sat with my legs crossed and usually after a while my knees start to bother me but because I only focused on my breathing nothing else seemed to matter.  The mans voice was a little bit annoying to me because he would constantly talk during the meditation when I was just trying on focus on nothing I guess.

After doing this meditation I would request for all people to do meditations because it relaxes your mind if anything else.  I used to do meditations because I always seemed to make situations more stressful than what it really was and my mind just needed a break.  When it comes to finals for this semester and for every semester after that, Right before a final just do a quick meditation.  although Brasington’s voice to me was a little annoying, his thought of working through your body to relax it and going through each body party is a great way to relax.