Kelly's Quotidian

I have officially begun operation “Uncomplicate Kelly”:-) Several new activities have been initiated in this endeavor, one of which has been meditation. I was a little distressed when I mentioned my desires to meditate to others I seemed to get a universal chuckle. I wasn’t sure if it was from folks’ own difficulties with this seemingly easy task or if it was them laughing at the idea of me trying to meditate. I’m sure it was a mixture of the two. I was very encouraged to find that when I’m in a calmer state, I can quite easily flow into it. I use guided meditations from Meditation Oasis‘ blog. I download the podcasts and either run them straight from the site or put them on my ipod. The challenge for me so far has been meditating when I’m not feeling so good (mood or otherwise). And of course these are the very times when it would provide the most benefit. But I had a surprise the other day. I did the “Letting Go” meditation in the morning. Let’s just say that the rest of the day had plenty of “peak” emotional moments. Periodically, without prompting or purpose, I remembered the feeling of letting go from my morning meditation, and I felt better. Don’t get me wrong, I was pooped at the end of the day, but it was an emotionally clean pooped. Just before falling asleep that night I had an appreciative thought that I had covered some ground on my life journey to uncomplicating Kelly today.