Monday, November 14, 2011

Exercises in Retrospect

After reviewing all the the exercises throughout this course, I have decided that the ones that work best for me are Prayer and Yoga with visualization and meditation infused.
Well, I think I made it pretty clear that I am a Christian and rely heavily on my faith. So, I choose prayer to be an exercise that I integrate more into my life. I really appreciated the research studies I found on Prayer. I thought it was really cool how the studies proved that prayer works to heal and instill hope, love, happiness, and integral health, even more so than Eastern meditation.
I do pray regularly. So, I think what I will start doing to make my prayers more meaningful by meditating afterwards. I know I have said this before, but I love the quote I learned during in this term:

"Prayer is when you talk to God,

meditation is when God talks to you."

                                       - Yogi Bhajan


I have taken this quote to heart. I think it is inspired.
The other exercise I will practice is Yoga with Meditation and Visualization. I practice yoga 2 days out of the week, for an hour each session. During my practice, I focus on my breathing and I visualize positive energy around me and in me. It is very calming. I think, however, I would like to incorporate yoga into every day of my week. Although, I think that maybe I will just do a few "Sun Salutations" to wake me up and follow that with my meditation/visualizations.

2 comments:

  1. Tera,

    I like all your ideas here, especially the early morning yoga. From personal experience from all the people I see come into work, the ones that exercise some sort before work have better moods. I am a night owl, so I like to workout and mediate before bed, I feel like I get a more restful sleep. Good breakdown on your blog this week :)

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  2. Tera,
    All your ideas here sound wonderful! I should have chosen prayer also, but I thought we had to choose two from the past Units. I love the prayer quotes you have and I might steal them from you ;-). I think doing some yoga when you first wake up; it could boost your energy for the day! Have a great week!

    -Natasja

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