The one about me trying to go Zen.

I'm going all new age on myself. We not completely new age there are some things I could never do.. like wear patchouli oil, or become a vegan ( I could never give up a chicken parmie, or a steak, or a pie..) but I have been trying to immerse myself in the world of meditation. Yes the most hyper person in the world is finally attempting to calm her hectic mind.

In the style of being a true Gemini- I love the new world and all that comes with it, but I have always had a bit of a love for the spiritual world. I would always prefer to go to a spiritual healer than a psych, I love a bit of reiki before a I would go to a physio and don't start me on how much I love getting my charkras rebalanced followed by a singing bowl massage.

No on is safe from my obsession at the moment including my family and the students at school. Or the other teachers at school who have not heard the end of me banging on about how amazing meditation is going with my classes. The kids honestly love this shit. And no, I'm sure it's not because it takes up 10 minutes of class where they get to put there heads on the desk and literally do nothing. But then I actually think it IS because they get 10 minutes of nothingness, which in today's world is as foreign to them as living in a world where the mobile phones didn't exist. And the looks on their faces when the 10 minutes is up is awesome, they are chilled, calm and peaceful- for at least 5 minutes anyway.

I made poor Indi do some meditation with me last night - or "emitation" as I called it ( see what I did there) We turned off the tv, we put down our phones and  ipads, we sat on the couch together and had 10 minutes of resting our minds, and it was pretty friggin awesome.

Not that it is easy, I find meditating ( or emitating) really, really hard. My mind wanders, I think of everything I had not done, have yet to do, or if Mario from the Mario Brothers name is actually Mario Mario (that one bothers me a lot), but I have noticed that in my every day life I am finding myself using the techniques to calm me down. Like I said to some of my Year 12's the other day if I had learnt some of these techniques years ago it would have made my life much easier!

If you would like to give it a try ( you know I love to share anything amazing I find- like my new Kevin Aucoin Mascara- simply the BEST, do your lashes a favour) have a watch of Andy Puddicombes TED talk, 

Give his 10 minute guided meditation a try

and then download his Headspace app on your phone. And welcome to the world of resting your tired, overthinking, overworked mind..... for only 10 minutes.... I haven't gone completely bonkers.