Find Your Balance

 As the weather starts to change into the warmer season my mood tends to take more of a positive outlook. The warmer weather helps my motivation and, in this case, has allowed me to motivate myself to add some more into my schedule. School exercises our minds all day constantly whether we are in class or doing assignments outside of class. These past few weeks I have been focusing more on exercising my body.  With a busy schedule I am not able to go to the gym as much as I would like, and sometimes getting the motivation to go somehow disappears. With my friends also getting excited about the warm weather in between classes we are outside either with a volleyball or a basketball making up games like we are kids again or just goofing around blowing off steam before our next class.  I've found going outside for just an hour on the nice days shifts my mood and motivates me to do it again or even sometimes motivates me to keep going on my day and do the homework I didn't want...

 In this post I will be talking about and sharing my experience with meditation!  Meditation has recently entered my life because I have enrolled in a yoga class offered at school. Now going into this class, I was a little excited to actually be able to do yoga once a week and also have a lecture about yoga. I know that yoga is very relaxing as it is but then we started learning about meditation and also practicing it.  The first time we meditated I will admit I kept going in and out of sleep, its 9am, I'm in a dark lecture hall with my eyes closed listening to soothing music. Can you blame me? We continue to practice this in class and also got assigned to meditate outside of class on our own. The more practice I do the better my experience is getting.  While in class meditating one thing that helps me focus is when our professor says "What is your body saying to you? Listen to what it is saying to you", because you are so relaxed it seems as if you are telling yours...