Meditate Daily!

November's challenge is to meditate daily.

I thought of doing the day-by-day breakdown of how it felt... but, my God, that sounds boring doesn't it? Day 1, I sat quietly for ten minute. Day 2, I sat quietly for ten minutes.

And really, that's what it is. Sitting quietly. Focusing on my breath. Taking 10-20 minutes a day to calm myself, disengage from the frenzy of the outside world, and focus on being. Just being.

It's a lovely sentiment, but 12 days in, I'm not feeling particularly lovely. I've struggled decided how exactly to meditate. I've been dipping in and out of a 21-day series of guided meditation from Deepak Chopra. It's fine, but I'm never sure what to do with myself in the ten minutes that leads up to the meditation. I've had some luck with apps that play soothing music and quietly turn themselves off after 10 minutes.

I'm thinking perhaps I need more than 10 minutes to fully relax into the practice. Since I was able to find at least 15 minutes in my day to do yoga, I think I'll tweak the mediation to at least 15 minutes.

Namaste!