Isn’t it funny when we plan to wake up before the children however they still seem to wake up before us or just when we awake? Funny how that happens. For myself personally I love the idea of waking up, jumping on the treadmill or have a Pilates session, enjoy a relaxing 'intentional meditation' session then having breakfast all before the family awake. This is not quite so realistic when you have young children so my meditation time is for the evenings and occasionally during the day to unwind a little.
Adding on from ‘imaging what you want to be every day’ from 'Intentional Dreaming Everyday’, now although just thinking of your goals or what you want to be in general is obviously going to help a great deal more than just forgeting about them, we should understand that with meditation we should ultimately be aiming for at least one 10 minute session per day. From my understanding from books that I have read, my favourite being Creative visualization; it is preferred that we mediate at least twice a day. Once in the morning and then the second in the evening, before we head off to sleep.
Personally I find it easier in the evening SITTING up in bed. This is much more beneficial as there is less chance for interruptions from children and phone calls etc. This way we also fall asleep relaxed from meditating and our brain then has 8 or so hours to soak up these empowering thoughts.
It is these meditation sessions that we calm our mind and body to concentrate on a specific goal or outcome. My favourite is using these sessions for confirming affirmations and instilling self confidence. Use your meditation session for Intentional Dreaming which ultimately intentional mediation really is just dreaming when we’re awake. Hence the name Intentional Dreaming. Keep a watch out for more on meditation and its techniques that I personally use.
Time To Meditate!
When was the last time you meditated? Aim for at least 10 minutes a day. Really what is 10 minutes? For an easy meditation technique try this one. If it helps you too relax light some candles, turn of the lights and put on some quite music.The idea is to stop thinking of everything else around us and to concentrate on our breathing.
When you are feeling completely relaxed working from your toes to your head, first feeling your feet take a deep breath in then while slowly exhaling pushing out any negative energy in your feet. You may feel a slight tingling as your body is relaxing and the negative energy is being transferred out. Then taking a deep breath in feeling your lower legs exhale and push any negative energy through your toes. Now from your knees, take a deep breath in and again push any negative energy out. Continue this all the way to your head including your arms. Feel your whole body completely relaxed.
Now starting from 10 take a deep breath in then exhale feeling your body relax a little more. Work down to 1 feeling your body and mind completely relaxed.
Either stay within the meditated state to ‘Intentionally Dream’ (which is to feel the feelings and excitement of already obtaining your goals and desires) or and when you are ready to release your meditation state simple breathing with your counting, count from 1 to 10 feeling yourself awaken a little more each time until your are completely awake on 10 when you open your eyes.
A simple simple but satisfying technique.
