Soothing of the mind equals Meditation!

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I decided that for my extra credit that I would do meditation. I went last Friday at 5:45pm. I do not have any past experience with meditation. I have never done it because I was taught that other religions do meditation not Baptist. I am a Baptist and I was taught that our meditation is praying. I never knew that as a Christian that I could meditate at all.  I expected the experience to be interesting and exciting. I expected to sit in a room and chant words from a book maybe. I also expected that I would have to look at a statue for a certain period of time. My experience with meditation was a great one. I walked into the Ekoji House and I first had to be silent then I had to take my shoes off.

I went to this house with three of my friends. We talked to this lady and she sent us upstairs. When we went upstairs we then found two more people from our class there with an instructor that was a guy. He sent all of us to this bigger room. We all sat down and he showed us how to sit and he also explained to us that meditation is focusing on our breathing and clearing out everything else from our mind. After he explained what we should do we all went back downstairs and we each got our spot on the mat and closed our eyes. I believe we sat in that position for about 30-45 minutes. When I sat there it was so hard for me to focus in the beginning. There was a leaf blower outside and that is where my mind was focusing at first. When I finally tried to focus on something else I began to pray to myself. I do not know why that began but I started praying. After I prayed I began to think of ways to improve myself and to just relax. After the 30-45 minutes was done, if we wanted to we could share what was on our minds. I did not say anything but I listened to what others said. I agreed with what most of them said because I was doing the same thing. The only question that came to my mind was, “Why am I so uptight and stressed all of the time?” That is the only question that popped up. Overall, I enjoyed my experience and I plan on going and doing this again.