Highlights

Location:  Couch in sunroom
Duration:  30 minutes
Pose:  Indian style, palms open, facing up, and resting on knees
Background Sound:  Back to the basics -- no background sound
Breathing Technique:  Paying attention to breathing
Affirmation:  None for today
Thoughts:  Meditation felt so unnatural in the beginning stages. Now it's something that I crave and look forward to.  Meditation is not a race and it's not about perfecting it.  It's about loving yourself enough to give yourself this time of stillness. With practice it will become more and more natural.

Highlights

Location: Outside on deck
Duration: 18 minutes
Pose: Indian style, palms open, facing down, and resting on knees
Background Sound: None for today
Breathing Technique: Breathing in through the nose and out through the nose
Affirmation: None for today
Thoughts: A little exposed meditating outside for the first time. Neat to be the observer. Enjoyed the sounds of nature and the busy world around me.

Highlights
Location:  Bedroom.
Duration:  27 minutes
Pose:  Indian style, palms open, facing up, and resting on knees
Background Sound:  Calm Meditation on Pandora
Breathing Technique:  Breathing in through the nose and out of the nose.  Long breaths in and long breaths out.  
Affirmation/Mantra:  I can, I will, I am. -Myself
Focus/Feeling:  Breathing felt short. Focused on Chakras and breath.


Highlights
Location:  Couch in sunroom
Duration:  25 minutes
Pose:  Indian style, palms open, facing up, and resting on knees
Background Sound:  Pandora, Calm Meditation
Breathing Technique:  Inhale and exhale from belly
Affirmation:  I sit in stillness with the upmost gratitude for God and so thankful for the life that I've been given to live. - Myself
Focus:  T'shuvah = to return, head back "to path."  We are born on a path, you wander from it but then realize it, and turn from whatever it is because it's not beneficial.  - Rob Bell

Highlights
Location:  Couch in sunroom
Duration:  30 minutes
Pose:  Indian style, palms down resting on knees
Background Sound:  Holosync (http://www.centerpointe.com/v2/)
Breathing Technique:  So Hum
Affirmation:  I am confidently and courageously confronting my fears and moving forward
on my life’s journey - Jack Canfield