I was sitting with my sister at Global Tribe Cafe (having some incredible vegan food!!) and she was telling me about her experiences with Yoga and Meditation. One of her stories made me laugh a lot, but I also found inspiration in what she said, so I thought I'd share it here on my blog. She explained that when she was lying down at the end of her Yoga class in 'Savasana' (meditation pose) she began to imagine herself as Dory from 'Finding Nemo' (as you do) in the scene where Dory and Marvin become trapped inside the whale's mouth. They're both panicking, trying desperately to get out, but Dory suddenly forgets everything and begins to allow herself to be moved by the water. She feels the ebb and flow of the waves as she lets go and relaxes. Even though it sounded hilarious at first, I thought it was a wonderful representation of meditation; when you are pushing against your thoughts, trying to relax your body, trying to breathe deeply and
1. Be Grateful Sometimes everyone can appear to be going at break-neck speed through life; with their careers, possessions, personal successes, and so on. It's all "More! More! More!" Not only that, we're all comparing our "showreels" on social networking sites with everyone else's. So where does that leave gratitude? - Shoved in a little box, in a corner, covered in thick dust, that's where. With life moving like a fast flowing river, it's often too easy to get dragged in by the current of it all; the lists of things we need to do, goals we want to achieve, and so on. All of the noise and chaos can leave us feeling that we're actually not really living. As if we've become almost numb to life as we blindly and mindlessly go about our everyday tasks on auto-pilot. It can begin to feel that we're trapped in what appears to be a never ending cycle of wanting more and never being happy with where w