Day 7: Prepare for the dream

No cone of silence. No earbuds. No iPhone App. No iPhone. No music. No Fans. No Airplane mode.

I challenged myself to meditate inviting any and all distractions. One day, I want to be able to sit anywhere and sink into a session. So, I need to start somewhere. I did use a pillow to sit on, other than that, I sat on the floor, back against the wall and began.

The funny thing about inviting distractions, you often get them. I got one. A dear friend of mine had to send me two messages in that moment, one that had to be answered.  I managed to only break my concentration for a brief moment. An observer would have missed it.

There was another moment while I was in meditation, where I realized my posture was really bad. I was hunched over with my lower back pressed up against the wall like I was driving a car like an old lady. Trying to keep my mind on the breath, I slowly straightened my back and barely rested my upper back or shoulders on the wall behind me. I may not be great in the posture category, but I'm realizing that I'm now conscious of it. I swear the session, breathing, and everything felt better after sitting upright.

The session itself was electric. I could feel my body going through, what I presume to be, the healing process from my training. Small pulses, and what feels like electric charges surge through various sore and tight muscles on the body. And most of me was physically sore. Once I was able to pull away from my body a little more, sinking deeper into my session, and set to drift. I attempted to keep my mind on task, but with recent happenings I kept getting pulled this way and that.

The most interesting part of my meditation was right before my exit. All of a sudden, I just went, "I'm done." That's at least where the argument started. I convinced myself that an alarm was properly set and I would not be late for the evening festivities. Once my excitement was under control, my alarm went off. A smile emerged on my face, I started to wake the rest of my body... then I jumped up and bolted for the door.



Today's session was 20:00.