While these are grainy ipod pictures they get the point across. From left to right is Brandy preparing for meditation (she is sitting on my legs), then her in her favourite meditative position, and post meditation as she stretches those important barking and eating muscles getting ready for the day.
Today I chose a very short session of 15 minutes as I started late and I expect the rest of the family may start moving soon... I could always be wrong though, it is Saturday after all.
I did my normal muscle relaxation, a different anxiety clearing approach and did a short undirected meditation.
Interesting clearing as I tried something a little different, it just popped into my head to try at the moment.
Normally I just let any negative energy feelings leave without regard to their source or even physical manifestation symptoms (tight chest, butterflies, trepidatious feelings etc). Here is the post where I describe this method.
Today I asked my unconscious to identify these feelings and their associated causes first. I have a few things that are looming at home and work that came up with their respective feelings and, surprisingly, those feelings disappeared as they were noted.
I think that bringing a particular feeling to mind, then noting it's cause allows me to categorize each and puts me at ease as my thought process goes something like "OK, I know what has to be done, it's manageable and not worth the worry... what's next?". Sort of a quick mental to-do list management of the apparent most important and urgent issues. Whether they are actually the most important and urgent is really a whole other matter but they seem to have the largest psychological or unconscious footprint right now.
I still did my normal clearing exercise afterwards, which serves to clear any un-identified stressors, and felt unusually calm and relaxed afterwards.
So I will be using both techniques combined in future and perhaps fine tuning them a bit.
Jeff.
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