write a diary writing entry about your personal experiences during the lockdown
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Explanation:
It is good for me. I really need a break for myself. l got opportunity to learn new things which I always wanted to learn . I got sufficient time to learn foreign languages , coding , astronomy , music n dance through online classes. I too learn cooking n baking . Lockdown is blessing for me as my family spends more time with each other and we understand and express our feelings easily.
Answer:
During the Corona lockdown, I started to challenge myself a little bit and decided to deepen my meditation practice. It was the perfect opportunity since I had to work from home – like probably most people who worked in Information Technology. So I stood up early in the morning at 5:15 before drinking coffee and went to the cushion for 1 1/2 hours. I did the same in the evening after work before going to bed. I decided to do it online with a teacher and did it for 45 days without in a row.
Later my projects at work got very challenging and I had to change the routine and did the practice only at a working day but not at the weekend. On some days I had to shorten the sessions. Today I manage to meditate early 20 minutes in the morning and 30 in the evening. When I’m lucky I find more time at the weekend.
Why do meditation?
I told a little bit our this at last SAP Community Coffee Corner Meet-Uo where we talked about work-life balance and now I like to share it here. I already blogged about Mindfulness Meditation. If you don’t know the benefits I will explain it here again. Everybody will agree that we have to care for our bodies: we brush our teeth, take a shower, and work out (or have at least good resolutions to do so). But what do we do for our minds? The mind need some care, too, because the work in IT business is demaning. We constantly have to solve difficult problems, have to deal with difficult people, we have tough dealines and budgets. We are constantly distracted and it is difficult to keep the mental focus. From my experience meditation is a good way to care for our exhausted minds.
Now I would like to share my experiences after a more intense meditation phase. For me, this is a little bit difficult to explain. Why? Meditation means switching from cognitive thinking to perception. During meditation, one perceives body, mind, thoughts, emotions, volitions, and so on. Unfortunately, those things are not easy to describe – one has to experiences this on its own. But I hope this blog entry could be interesting for someone with meditation skills and wants to deepen it a little bit.
You might get the impression that I am a very skillful meditator, but the opposite is true. Those things don’t come easy to me and my meditation is often a mess. But I learned not to worry about it. The experiences changes with causes and conditions and slowly you learn how this works.
135 Hours on the Cushion
When I look back, those 45 days have been an amazing experience and I miss it. But it is somewhat difficult to explain why. The 1 1/2 hours in the morning and the evening give your day a structure. And after about 5 days your perception starts to changes and also how you see the world around you.