Ommmm.........

So yesterday, I was feeling really, really awesome! I just woke up in a good mood, and all day I had fantastic conversations with people that made me feel so alive. In the wake of this amazing mood I was in, I set a plan for the remainder of my day. I planned to go to our common area after my last class, and do some beginner's yoga (from YouTube of course), catch up on my journaling and reading, and finish a blog post or two!


I was so excited to carry out this plan and even got a few friends to join me, but of course life seemed to derail my plans. I had to do a lot of reading for my English class, and time just got away from me. I decided that instead of doing yoga or any of those other things, however, I would at least try to meditate- something I have always wanted to do, but haven't really tried very often. 


So at 1:30 am, instead of going to bed, I set myself up in my room with some good meditation music that I found and closed my eyes. I just recently finished reading the book Eat, Pray, Love, and used some of what I learned in that book to help me try to meditate. I didn't think it was going to work very well, but I was amazed that even with the soi dogs barking outside and people talking in my hallway, I was able to become very still and very peaceful, and the ten minute meditation song I was listening to flew by and felt like only a minute. I absolutely loved it, and I'm going to try and do it every day!


By the way, this was the mantra I focused on during my meditation:

Om Namah Shivaya, loosely translated as "I honor the divinity within me."