Comments on: Starting to Meditate - Five Minutes a Day http://hippygeek.net/93_yoga_starting-to-meditate-five-minutes-a-day Tue, 22 May 2012 00:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sixpaws http://hippygeek.net/93_yoga_starting-to-meditate-five-minutes-a-day#comment-3372 Sixpaws Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:56:04 +0000 http://hippygeek.net/?p=93#comment-3372 Love your idea of the pillow. I start with a prayer, as a Christian, then take my hearing aid out for total silence. I just sit on the couch and hold a seashell and run my fingers over it to focus. I do the "emptying your mind" type meditation. It has helped me with my long-suffering panic attacks that come out of nowhere. I have learned to meditate myself "down" from them, thus not needing xanax. (unless I am at a baseball game or other close quarters, then I need that xanax!) I like to burn essential oils too, over a tea light, but not when meditating. I do that just while I'm on the computer at night and getting ready to turn in. Love your idea of the pillow. I start with a prayer, as a Christian, then take my hearing aid out for total silence. I just sit on the couch and hold a seashell and run my fingers over it to focus. I do the “emptying your mind” type meditation. It has helped me with my long-suffering panic attacks that come out of nowhere. I have learned to meditate myself “down” from them, thus not needing xanax. (unless I am at a baseball game or other close quarters, then I need that xanax!)

I like to burn essential oils too, over a tea light, but not when meditating. I do that just while I’m on the computer at night and getting ready to turn in.

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