Woo Woo

I hate to get all woo woo on you here, but just try this:

Close your eyes, breathe deep - in and out (s l o w l y) - and say these words to yourself...

Everything I have is enough

Everything I am is enough

Then think about the following later today (when you're about to open your mouth and blab to somebody else)

The four truths

Is what I'm about to say kind?

Is what I'm about to say true?

Is what I'm about to say necessary?

Is this the right time to say what I'm about to say?

Meditation is when all of your  senses are turned in (yeah, four classes and now I'm an expert). We spend all of our days watching and listening and smelling and touching and tasting and processing so many external stimuli that meditation is when, for maybe five minutes a day you can just sit and breathe, let all the thoughts just flow by.

I know, sorry, but I warned you - woo woo

Tuesdays With Mary

My Dad always says, "Never explain your jokes," but Tuesdays With Mary 

Get it? Anyway. Now that I'm recommitted to yoga every Tuesday again, just to make sure I didn't leave when it's still light outside, Mary added a Meditation class (not medication) after yoga just for September. I've taken a couple of classes before, but never quite got it. I could never sit still, stop scratching, sniffing, peeking at everybody else, clear the crazy thoughts from my head or get comfortable long enough to accomplish anything, so I was a little skeptical. But I finally saw the light. Literally. We learned how to sit up with a straight spine with our heads up. This keeps you from falling asleep, just one little tip of the head and you could go into unconsciousville, which now I know, isn't the point. So Mary said some things, something about "who are we without thoughts, emotion and memories?" and eventually the crazy thoughts left and everything was still. Later on, I have no idea how much later, I saw a shooting star-like flash of light, sort of a colored horizontal beam orbiting inside my empty head (I know what you're thinking). Then it came again. Very cool. I'll be back next week and see what happens. The sun was gone after class, just the silhouette of Camelback Mountain lit up by the moon.