When I was first asked to sit for 10 minutes at the end of yoga I went into panic mode that I may never have meditated before. All this yoga and no meditation…how can that be?! What mind trickery may happen? But we were encouraged to see what came up and that answers may appear naturally to issues we may be having.
It made me feel so uncomfortable at first that I wanted to run from the room. That surprised me as I love relaxing so what was I trying to escape from? My thoughts, or fear of what may happen?
After being in a situation where I felt like my integrity had been challenged I was struggling to keep calm. I was feeling angry at having to question my standards. Sitting in stillness was the only way to stop my thoughts from taking over. I had been in love with yoga nidra for a while, a yogic state of consciousnesses between sleeping and dreaming, but this was different as rather than switching off from your thoughts you were facing them.
The beauty of meditation is that anyone can do it and there’s no right or wrong way. It’s almost as natural as the sleeping we do every day. So if you’re wondering what’s in it for me, maybe you need to sit with yourself, you never know what may appear?!
Namaste
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