Visit to the Shambhala Center (5/20/11)
The Shambhala center was a different experience. I always thought of meditation as sitting down and not think of anything and humming "umm umm". Now I know there are different ways of meditating. In the Shambhala center the lady in the first session of meditation told us to think of our breathing in and out then to hear the people that were talking outside. In the second session of meditation she asked us questions and we had to answer them to our self. One of the questions was to think of someone we love. I had no idea that you could think in a session of meditation. This made me see that for everything there are different ways of doing something.-Guadalupe
During the meditation I was very excited because I though it was basically about falling into another world where I can be able to relax and daydream. As we began I noticed that it was pretty difficult because I actually fell asleep. I was kind of embarrassed because I was in the front row and I allowed the meditation to put me to a really comfortable zone to the point were I was knocked out. However one of the guys who was also meditating told me that I was actually not sleeping and that it was part of meditating. I guess the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" can also apply to my experience during the meditation because as much as I thought that mediation was based on closing your eyes and just sitting down I realized that it was another way of being clam and separating yourself away from others. I am really proud of myself because I am learning new things not about where I only come from but outside of my culture which I can be able to share with others. -Amina