so i completed a 21 day meditation challenge today.
woohoo! started & finished something i set out to do... feels good. ha! :) i've only meditated a bit in the past-- let's just say the practice hasn't had much 'staying power' with me. despite all the amazing benefits of it & the fact that russell simmons is a huge advocate of it. regardless, the challenge began 11.12.13... which happens to be the last time i posted on this blog. it was hosted by oprah & deepak chopra and the theme was 'desire & destiny'. (not gonna lie, i kinda loved it. that stuff's right up my "still-tryin-to-figure-out-what-i-wanna-be-when-i-grow-up" alley).
anyhoo, it was certainly challenging in some ways, but i stuck with it & didn't miss a day (unbelievable, right?!). i actually woke up looking forward to my meditation time, which i tried to do as early in the day as possible. i found that it really set a nice tone for my day & was a lovely 'self-care' kinda thing to do. moms deserve it. :) (kinda like they deserve as much yoga as possible & eating dove dark chocolates all day with the little messages on the insides of the wrappers). and yes, my mind definitely wanders a lot during meditation, but there are those brief moments where it seems to rest. ahh, rare but indeed so calming & blissful. the provided mantras helped, as well as trying to just focus on my breath. my minimal jivamukti yoga, chanting-in-sanskrit experience helped me here... i wasn't quite so weirded out by it.... but sitting in silence & stillness for 20 minutes can definitely be tricky.
long story short, i dug this challenge. i kinda feel like it helped me out of a rut. thankfully. i'm hoping to continue meditating, though in a slightly more abbreviated form. so there's the new challenge. keeping up this new dare-i-say habit(?!). it's beneficial to me, no doubt.
on another note: i had a day today where i feel that i am too selfish to be a parent. more on that later.
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