27/09/2025
Sometimes it becomes apparent you need to make huge changes.
I have been practicing meditation for about 19 years and had periods of weeks and months where I would be meditating daily.
But I also had gaps where I did not at all even when I knew I needed to - somehow, I just would not enter into it as I felt like I was just pushing away bad things but not dealing with them - which was also true - but I was really missing the fact that I could deal with things as well as meditate.
So knowing that changing just one thing can be life changing in terms of the direction of your life ( due to a challenge set up by my old chiropractor, inspiring me to start swimming starting swimming once a week was the change that eventually brought me to tkd, long story lol)
And with knowing that I would be starting my yoga teacher training, I decided to make the commitment to myself, and meditate daily, no matter what, no matter where, taking that moment of time to just stop and go inside. There have been so many days where it would have been easier to just say nah not today - but it has created a whole year's worth of meditation experience.
It helped that I got my daily dopamine hit on the app of adding another day and seeing it increase and progress- the app has guided me through 105 or so hours of meditation in the app - but in addition to that I have used meditations and nidras by Ayla Nova, Hannah Fries, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli, as well as the yoga nidra network, also from you tube and from the very experience of lying on the floor in the garden watching clouds, stars, sitting looking out the window of my spanish hotel while at the world championships, Watching cars and planes and lightening storms, and simply on a yoga mat on the hotel floor. And of course the nidras and mediation practices guided and shown to us by Hannah in our The Yoga Village yoga training, which I have also practiced at home. I cannot even count the hours or the benefits of these. And also during my acupuncture sessions, while the needles are doing their work, I slip onto that happy little space.
Some times it has been 5 minutes and sometimes it has been an hour. Every time has been different, so many times, I have cried throughout, or cried before and calmed down through the meditation, or practiced the meditation and cried after with grief or with joy. Crying is an essential part of healing. When my neurodivergent brain has been at full pelt in different directions, so many times where it has found its way out of the knots and into a smoother space, realising I can leave that at the door and it will still be there when I have finished, but will come at the tasks or problems or general life from a much calmer space.
I also have practiced some meditations with my 10 year old at bedtime, he too needs to calm his ND brain down before sleep and he really loves that special time to snuggle and breath together. coregulation at its finest.
I have practiced laughter yoga which to me is an active meditation and always releases and returns to a space of calm through the breath. I have sat in queues of traffic or just when the traffic light changes as I reach it, and watched my breath, which is a far nicer experience than being cross and irritated over it.
I have been offering meditations to my clients before their energy balancing sessions and I fully believe in practicing what I preach. I feel that my experiences and practice help me create offerings that are truly grounding, trauma informed and healing. I even listen to my own meditations so I can see how they are working.
Because I know that I can change things for myself with this commitment, daily practice has created new pathways and new habits - There are some suggestions around that it takes 21-30 days to create a new habit, and I figured - what would happen if I made it a year, well - in that time, I have also committed to other new habits that I felt would make healthy changes in my body, to help me reform negative patterns in my life that were harming my wellbeing- using apps, I also get a little daily dopamine hit of recognising that I have changed that and feel better for it, I have used little apps to check in with each day. I realised that my Neurodivergent and perimenopausal brain was seeking dopamine and serotonin through less healthy routes - using the apps holds me accountable to only myself - but also allows me to track what I have achieved - I do the same with my housework - but ultimately it is all working, and everything is becoming a meditation - and the house gets cleaned ;) Always a bonus with 3 kids around because it needs doing more!!!
I do not share this for praise or ego, I share it because it might inspire someone else to change that one thing that makes a huge difference to their wellbeing- and that is what I am all about. Inspiring people on their journey, taking control of their own lives and wellbeing.
Ofcourse, If you are interested in working with me, then drop me a line to find out more about how reiki, shamanic healing and mediation could help you.
I am offering a few people the opportunity to take advantage of my yoga training as I need to practice my skills which means personalised yoga sessions will be available in order for me to practise those skills. Again, contact me through the website www.elementalfeather.com
Have a beautiful day - and if you can find five minutes, to breath and gaze at something beautiful, please do give yourself that gift - and if you want to share that you were inspired by this post to find mindful moments please just comment below 😍🙏🤟🌈⭐️🌙🌬🧘♀️🧘🎇🌄🌌
thanks to Healing Energy Tools for the wonderful and perfectly timed post words and image
