I'm Trying Deep Breathing, But Does It Work?
When I first gave guided meditation a try at school, it was mainly two things: imagining the positive and focusing on your breath. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale...ZZZZZZ, Oh thank goodness we’re done! Yes, okay, I did fall asleep, but that’s everyone when they start meditating, right? Meditation wasn’t my thing back then, yet my mom loves it, and has been encouraging me to try it for a while. I kept responding, “What’s the point?”, “I’m not a fan of meditation.”, stuff like that. But overtime, my mom had taught me more about what meditation really is. Then I learnt (thanks to Jay Shetty) that figuring out how to change by realizing the bad things you’ve done counts as meditation. So there were times in my life where I have meditated, but didn’t know I was meditating . There are many definitions (or forms) of meditation. The one I’m going to use today is (*inhale*) “doing some heavy breathing while trying not to overwhelm yourself with negativity” (*exhale*). It’s some