Cleansing
- Yogalates is one of the most effective workouts that you can do to accomplish a mental cleansing and body sculpting at the same time. Just the other day after a few down face dogs, warriors poses, corkscrews and so on it was then time to meditate. My legs were crossed. The instructor asked me to feel my inhalation as it entered my body and the exhale as it left my body. Relax your body. Relax your mind. Breeeeath into it. She over pronounced it like that. Next thing I know I'm zoned out. Numb to any nonsense that may be buried deep down inside. All worries, self doubt, pain, affliction or trauma stored throughout life seems to dissapear. All with these simple and controlled breaths. My spine is centered. My aches gone. I was MEDITATING. In that moment when I realized that my mind was CLEAR out of no where, uncontrollably and with the greatest feeling of PEACE I CRIED. I cried somemore. I had that HARD cry that tightens your core and is silent at the same time. Most people would call it a GOOD cry. Yet everytime my abdomen tightened it felt so good. Tears and all. Once the tranquil music stopped and the instructor stopped instructing my deep level of peaceful concentration stopped and I exhaled deeply and let out a sigh backed up with a relieving laugh. :)
I realized in that meditative state like I never had before how free I was. How beautiful the silence of my mind actually was. How essential meditation was now going to be in my life. The relaxation and self awareness was unimaginable. I was not into meditating and used to quit during that moment in the yogalates workout for no direct reason. I'm so glad I took a moment to really give it a try and never could I have imagined the renewal it could give me. The passion to start over. Rethink my channels of thought. The silence helped me to better understand how to self talk myself out of the things that served me no true purpose from being embedding into my mind. I deserved this peace I thought. A big part of life is mind control. The mind is one of our strongest assets given by our maker. Yet it is so strong it can make you weak if you overload it with a bunch of junk that is not good for you. You always control it. I realized on that day how meditation is a catalyst that helps lead the mind away from any harm. I realized meditation was real. I just had to share my experience because it was a life changing moment for me.
Meditation is a BEAUTIFUL thing ya'll! So if you haven't yet, try it! It couldn't hurt!
