Russian food coma makes it that much harder to breath through it. Food plays a big role in meditation and yoga. It's not easy to eat more than your body needs and then have the capacity to sit, think, or pay attention to anything with alertness. Instead, I paid attention to my stomach and listened to what it was doing. I couldn't sit for too long because the coma set in and I had to lie down. I fell asleep as soon as I found a comfortable position to accommodate my body.
The Practice
Morning meditation - 30 minutes
Reflection
I haven't done yoga or Qigong in two days and I can't say that it made that much of an impact on my psyche as it hasn't been my only means of practicing breathing. I think there's more guilt involved in keeping up with a program than the program having affect on the overall well being. I just wanted to say a few words about that. Although, I do have these practices, I'm also very well aware that life happens when I'm busy making other plans. Guilt defeats the purpose of being more connected to my breath. Breathing through guilt is part of it.
However, having ONE sustaining practice per day is definitely grounding. For me, that's meditation or sitting in stillness. It can also be done in a less structured way like in the car standing in traffic. It usually takes at least half an hour to get anywhere in LA, that's a good amount of time to place more attention on the breath than thinking how to get home faster.
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