Blogging as meditation

Meditation and mindfulness are the two new buzz words in the area of mental health. Although if you go back to the beginning of this blog it was to help me lose weight, mental health has always been a huge priority for me. I firmly believe good physical health and good mental health are interdependent. I am very much the whole mind body spirit thing.

Thats one reason I think why qigong has gripped me so much is because it is a kind of moving meditation. I can be very mindful when I am doing qigong.

But sometimes sitting still is good....and in the past I have found that blogging about something can help me sort my thoughts out. Sometimes its almost a kind of automatic writing.

I am very hard on myself at times. I think I should meditate and be mindful and be more spiritual than I am. I am a reiki practitioner and we are meant to be spiritual. I recently took someone though her reiki level one...and she was very unhappy that it wasn't more spiritual. I got the impression she wanted a big spiritual break though, some answers to life's great questions....the truth is answers don't come in in a flash very often. They come from discipline and regular practice.

One of my friends posted in a face book group that she had been told to tell us to talk to our guides today....about anything. Not to worry if we can't hear them, they can hear us. Now this is something I have a problem with. I am not sure about this whole 'guide' thing and suspect I just make things up ........but then I don;t expect to hear things. And that of course could well be the problem. We limit our achievements by our expectations.

Blogging like this is a way of me 'talking' to guides/angels/god/the universe/.....take your pick on who could be the recipient. And I know I have experienced moments when my thoughts have gone in unexpected direction while blogging......and that could be an answer by who or what ever 'listens.

I have been reading a book recommended from a very unexpected source about a players in a virtual reality game. Their avatars can meditate and pray. When they meditate it is possible for those outside the game to talk to them (even though this shouldn't happen) When they prey only the mainframe computer that controls the game talk to them.
For a sci fi book it contains a lot about spirituality. And it actually mentions reiki....



And I have just remembered that reading has also been recommended as a form of meditation.

Maybe I am not as bad at being spiritual as I though...