I don't make Resolutions, at this point in my life I know what I need, want and don't need or want. But after talking to a good friend who deals with CFS/ME and she was telling me she does her Meditation after her morning coffee...

And when she misses it, she feels like she is really missing something...so it sunk in more to me. I know Meditation can do wonders for so much in our life...from pain, depression, fatigue, high blood pressure and just putting out thoughts for another person.

So I'm in my 2nd day now and my mantra mostly is "less pain" and "lower blood pressure"...I combine them or say one or the other in my mind.

I am aiming for 15-30 minutes of Quiet Time. Turn off my radio and go into silence. Today it was 30 minutes...it can go fast.

Good health and comfort/peace to all.

Good plan Caroline .

Meditation is part of my daily mental health self-care - it has helped me a lot with my clinical depression and anxiety.

I have NOT missed a day since I started my resolution. If I feel I might miss a session, I feel badly and DO IT. Some days 15-30 minutes. Missing a session would seem like missing a part of my life now. Still using the same mantra.

Good job Caroline .

I don't know how true this is but my clinical psychologist once told me that the Tibetan word for meditation literally translates as "getting used to it".

My friend meditates daily and she's the one that pushed me to get back on and do it daily...she feels something is missing when she misses...so she does not. I understand what she is saying/feeling.

I think all children should be shown how to use relaxation techniques of various types when they're very young. Then it could perhaps become a part of their daily lives forever.

Lara, I completely agree.

I would also add the ideas of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to your suggestion - not in a clinical sense but helping children to learn to notice when their thoughts may not be helpful and how to deal with those thoughts.

I agree totally, meditation SHOULD be cirrculum and I was happy to hear my grandgirl has a meditation class at UCLA. And Yes, it needs to start way earlier...almost like religion is pushed on us when we are so young. Many years ago when I was still doing childcare, I would "try" to get 2 little boys into meditation to calm them down and they loved going along with me and getting into their meditation. Such that it was.

A recent article shows that meditation leads to measurable changes in the brain which seem to be associated with reduced experience of stress.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...-better-brain/

http://www.psyn-journal.com/article/...288-X/abstract