When I started this journey with my network learning project a few weeks ago, I had know idea what I was going to choose to learn. The idea of being the student again was kind of overwhelming, and the endless ideas of things to learn was daunting. Through the struggle though I picked what I wanted to learn, which was meditation, and dove into building a professional learning network to help me learn meditation. In my final video, I show where I started with no help and no clue, to where I am now with lots of help and advice from many sources. Multi media really played a huge roll in my success with meditation.
The Huffington Post provided me with two articles on where to meditate and apps to use. I found the reviews from the Apps Article to be helpful with narrowing down which apps were more useful than others. This helped me to decide on Walking Meditation. It was a good transition from being always on the go, to calming down and taking a second to sit and breathe. I also looked into meditation programs through YouTube videos. I started with The 30 Day Meditation Challenge, with jbittersweet, and through that I discovered Yoga with Adriene and DoYouYoga.com. I am currently on Yoga Now’s 30 Day Meditation Challenge which is through DoYouYoga.com. I plan to continue using DoYouYoga.com videos as I progress in the meditation journey.
Using WikiHow I found the other essentials I needed to be a successful meditator. Some of those essentials were; clothing, equipment, stretching exercises, and breathing exercises. One of the biggest helps I found when preparing was yoga. I touched on this in my last blog post about doing yoga before starting to meditate in order to relax my muscles. After a couple of weeks and using all of these tools I was able to really sit back and meditate. Now I am starting to see the benefits of meditation come through in my daily life. I feel very calm these days, and open minded. I have found both my personal life and professional life are very pleasant and manageable from my extra calm relaxing time. Just taking a few minutes to clear my head has made me more productive and able to Get Things Done.
My plan is to continue my network learning with meditation. I recently came across some guided meditation videos for kids that I think would be very beneficial with my students, especially on testing days. I have learned so much from this project not only about meditation, but about the endless possibilities of network learning. It seemed that every time I found some helpful resource that already had me linked up to my next helpful resource, and so the networking continued, and will continue as long as there is a desire to learn.
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