Okay... so this is a pretty funny story... that really happened to me a few minutes ago while I was trying to come up with blog ideas.
Okay so recently I started subscribing to a youtube channel called "The Honest Guys." They are known for making meditation videos and playing relaxing music. I actually found them trying to find ambient noises while writing. I like thunderstorms and city sounds... and I found one of theirs and I liked it.
Since then I've listened to a few of their meditation videos from time to time. I'll listen to their sleep talk downs and their headache healing video has been really helpful for me when I have headaches. Anyway I saw that they had a new video that was a 9 minute fantasy meditation for busy people and I thought "Okay" Because I don't usually commit enough to hear their longer videos. Lol.
So I started listening to it and they said that this meditation was from a particular album of theirs called Gateways to Serenity... which had all sorts of meditations that were about 7 minutes each. And then I thought "Hey, maybe it will be better if I listen to the album on itunes with my headphones on. So I clicked off of the video and looked for headphones.
Out of seemingly no where- headphones appeared! Gasp! I needed to do this. I decided to go to my desk since I wanted some more inspiration while at my desk... so I go to my desk with my phone and I go to put the headphones in and then I realize there is no headphone jack and these are my old headphones.
I thought "No big deal. They've got to be around here somewhere." And sure enough... 4 other pairs of headphones appeared. I swear! I have never seen this many headphones in my life and I hadn't remembered actually seeing headphones in a while. I then realized all of these were also old headphones... so I look around for the newer headphones or the thing that can attach your older headphones to the newer devices (at least I think that's how it works... maybe it's the other way around."
Anyway... after several minutes of searching, I found the right headphones!
Then I realized "eh, I've waited this long- let's try making the situation a little bit more relaxing.
So I get some meditation stones that I recently got at Francesca's. These are meant for creativity and I had moved them from my desk to above my bed so that I might have creative dreams. Didn't totally work that way, but anyway I got the stones and I was ready to relax.
"Oh wait!" I thought! I want to focus after the meditation- so I should use my bath and Body Works Aromatherapy Focus Eucalyptus and Tea lotion because that should help me relax and focus.
Then I remembered I had sheet masks! I need to use a sheet mask if I'm really going to enjoy this relaxing experience... so I washed my face because I hadn't done that yet and then I came back in my room and grabbed the sheet mask.
Then I realized I only had one of this particular sheet mask and I wanted to take a picture of it for a review for my instagram. Then I placed it right down and realized I wanted a little bit more of an interesting photo and that since it's taken me this long to relax already, I might as well arrange it with the stones and the Aromatherapy lotion. And then I was like "Wait, I should show people what I'm listening to also... so I'll pull up The Honest Guys on Youtube and then take the picture!"
And since it is nighttime it's a little dark, so I might as well get my selfie light to brighten things up a bit... but the selfie light is really just meant for selfies so how do I place it so that it will light everything up. Hmmm...
Here? No too bright in the backround.
If you notice that this is a different sheet mask... it's because I had to stage this photo after I meditated during the time I was writing this exact post. I had the selfie light on the second brightest setting because it looked okay when I did that... but in order to turn it off you have to go through all 3 settings... and the brightest setting showed off the colors of the crystals a little bit better... so I better use that one.
this is the second brightest setting. The first photo has the brightest setting. I know... you probably can't tell the difference and neither can I...so this might be inacurate.Now to select my meditation... hmmm there are a lot of options. I end up choosing The Circle of Wisdom because I feel like that will help guide me with my writing. But then I accidentally clicked on something else. Should I listen to that instead then? Is that a sign?
No! Go back to The Circle of Wisdom.
Darn it! Clicked wrong again. Okay Circle of Wisdom still. I want to be wisdomous!
Then I think "Huh... I don't know if I'm supposed to be holding these crystals or not... but I want to hold these crystals right now." So I paused and grabbed the crystals and then rewound back to the beginning.
And Voila! It was kind of relaxing overall... and I guess it helped me write this post. I liked holding the crystals because it made me feel more connected to the earth and I felt like there was a balance between technology and natural elements.
So I did that... it was a 6 minute meditation... so it definitely took me longer to get ready for it. Plus now I'm writing about it and it took me a little while longer to remove the sheet mask and then listen to other various songs from Star Wars soundtracks. And take some more pictures... because I had to show you the example of how the ring light looked bad where I had it and I didn't have the same sheet mask left to fake the realism of that. Although I actually might have it in my deleted photos... hmmm....
Anyway that's about it. So that was... probably at least a half hour for me to get ready and talk about this 6 minute meditation. And I'm still going to work on it more because I need to actually add the pictures from this to this post! And you don't need to know that but I'm telling you anyway! Blogging is hard! Meditating is hard. Relaxing is hard.
Bye!
-Shannon
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