MEDITATION! I have been saying for years how I want to learn how to relax and meditate, quiet the mind and just breathe. A number of times I found myself sitting there in my imperfect Chinese pose-trying to relax, first of all it’s pretty hard to try to relax when you are sitting in a position you or your muscles are not used to, now your focus is shifted and you keep thinking how uncomfortable you are feeling. When you finally manage to sit, without toppling over you already feel like you have been trying to meditate for too long now, so you quit and make plans to try again either later on or tomorrow.

See unlike stuffing ones face with junk, lazing around on the couch and being a major worm, training the body and mind doesn’t come easy, it requires effort, and a lot of times this effort takes its own time to show results and as luck would have it we want quick fixes. So waiting it out is not for the faint hearted or the weak-willed. It’s quite amazing though how hard it is to quiet one’s mind and just breathe there is always something we are thinking about, fretting over or calculating, one hardly ever gets a chance to just sit back relax and allow all thoughts to dissipate. Our attention is always required be it urgent or not, someone always needs you for something, whether you like it or not. I don't even think we actually know how to, I don't remember being taught how to relax, I do know though that people will keep on telling you "you need to relax" but they never go into detail, just how you are supposed to do that.

I have decided that this year, this month, from now on... (No, this is not a resolution) I am going to learn to relax, breathe and let go, I am going to connect to my spirit and just find inner peace-Kung Fu Panda style. I think the key to meditation and relaxation is letting go of the control and power we "need" to have over things, people and situations, when you are able to do that, then you can be able to quiet the mind and be at peace. I’m going to start now after I’m done posting this and see how relaxing my jaw, straightening my back and breathing helps me relax, then again that may prove difficult seeing that I am not in an environment conducive for meditation. Nonetheless I’m going to try, that is the first step to everything that later proves worthwhile right?! With that said let me get to relaxing, I suggest you do the same and remember to breathe.

usaaahhh!!!