Single Mom Striking Out

Some people have problems going into meditation and I don't blame them. When I first started out with this thing, it irked me....which is not a good thing since we are trying to do the exact OPPOSITE! lol. So, I download a whole lot of MP3s to help guide me into meditation. And you know what? It sucks that Malaysians can't download from Amazon because there are so many out there! It's amazing. You've got ones for kids, for business people, for stressed out, for the sick, for elderly...everything! But meditation is a very universal kind of thing and most of the time, one meditation guide video works for everyone in general. Here's one for you, a great nature-based meditation video you might find useful. There's a QR Code if you want to hop over onto a mobile-friendly website. Click Here!

We were rushing back from school, and then rushed to get showered, and then rushing to get to tuition when this happened. Rushing around is something I really abhor. I want to take my own sweet time to do my things, at my own pace. But such is the world that we are living in...most of the time, we can't escape it. But today, as we were rushing out of the house for tuition class, one my boys stopped me my tracks and said very loudly, 'Look, mom! The trees are dancing!' Such a simple statement but I thought we have a spare second to watch the dancing trees. It. Was. Awesome. I mean, we don't put enough time into our daily lives to do this, do we? To stop and watch. To stop and listen. To stop everything in our tracks and just be with the things around us. We are always struggling to get somewhere, some place, accomplish something, meet someone....endless! LOL But we have a choice. For me, I take refuge in my daily yoga practice whereby I have no other choice but t...