Breathing Meditations

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Getting into the EX-IM world some of my Japanese relatives have constructed over the centuries, has definitely increased the stress in my life. I've picked up several Breathing meditations over the years. This is despite my spending hours each day performing advanced solo classical piano music for 30+ years of my life. And oddly none of the below were my very 1st meditation. And aided me as my stress & situations changed. 

1. basic seated Mysticism meditation- sit in chair with feet on floor, legs side by side, and open hands face up or down resting on knees or thighs. Breathe in and follow the draw of air your lungs take in. Breathe out and follow the exhalation of air your body releases. Start with 3-5minutes and work up to 15-20min. Idea is to focus on breath, should clear other invasive thoughts.

2a. Sand mandala meditation - Om mane  pad me hung.  Om is the beginning of all Buddhas, mane is he who holds the emerald & Padme is he who holds the lotus flower, hung is the end/closure of the Buddha. Picture Chenrezig with this mantra to give it more substance. Some people use the Mala - bead string when chanting.  

2b. 4part Namgyal Chenrezig meditation - see above and add thought of "please give me the gift of cleanse my soul", with each repetition & With Mala. 

3.  Sangha meditation from reading- my favorite was from Pema Chodron's Writings, or Dali Lama 365 I received from my Monk.

4.  Tonglen - breathe in all the dark & heavy thoughts, breathe out the light

5.  Christian meditation - opposite of Tonglen to Breathe in the light and positive & breathe out the dark and heavy  energy.

6. Krishna meditation mantra - Hare Hare Krisna. 3x

7.  Lotus meditation - Nam Myoho renge Kyo repeat several times and think of what one desires in life.

8.  Ogamisana meditation- Nam Myoho Renge Kyo with different accented syllable. Has different meaning. Say with hands at heart level in prayer position, some move hands shaking up and down with the mantra.

Me with that look-- are you kidding me?!!!!! again.

9. Classical Christian Mystic type meditation- I kind of made it up- like basic meditation above. Increase mental activity with 3-5minutes Bach or orchestral music and sit with eyes closed. Then do basic meditation after saying Lord's Prayer (I said every night as a child). Ask to connect to God before beginning the breathing meditation. 

10. Pilates ball mediation - sit on Pilates ball and pick a color that comes to mind. Do basic breathing meditation and focus on this color you chose entering your body on the inhale, follow it through your lungs till it  fill your lungs & diaphragm (make your diaphragm large like a ball) until you slowly exhale the color. Can interchange colors when it becomes easier. 

11. Starchild meditation- breathe in ultraviolet and breathe out cobalt blue 3x. 

I've made my own Mala or power bracelets for the People from the stars meditations I do.

12. My newest self made HawAiian based mantra- Aho, Mau loa, Kau a Kau

No Pakalolo-- please.

Trying to find an "affordable" living situation in Hawaii that allows a person to live and make deposits to their savings and trading accounts possible is difficult. Now throw in tolerating housemates who smoke DA Kine, Pakalolo, Marijuana. It's even more difficult to live around my potential allergic outbreaks of Anaphylaxis shock. My eyes immediately become uncontrollably pained and tear as if I had some extreme chemical exposure from warfare. My interior throat becomes tight, closed, and itchy as I begin to gasp for air. My nostrils become itchy and I may begin a sneezing fit if I can breath enough.
Yet my housemates find this difficult to believe. So, aside from letting them send me to the Emergency Room by exposing myself to the Girl's weed habit... I can only hope she moves out next month and takes her smoker's tooth colored glass bong along. But, since she's a "respectable Filipino" who is on a respectable rowing team here in Hawaii (12 years my junior) The Girl's disrespect lingers to me as she justifies it with her short Washington D.C. stint at the Hawaiian State legislature. And feels justified in being extra rude to those around her (in daily parking habits and other ways). Mind the fact that the first time I met her, she was smoking cigarettes and sitting in filth on a pigeon poop covered bench. My first impression of her was completely disgusting. 0
           But she's Filipino-American and I'm just Japanese trash to her and her "respectable" Hawaiian family who do well for themselves in the Hostess bar industry, and Insurance industries of Hawaii. I'm sure if her family knows, and as I've experienced with many of the older parents of people near my generation of Hawaii;;- they only laugh at newcomers and their families. This creates a wonderful atmosphere for decreased and stopped funding of all of my activities within Hawaii since my family and especially extended family chooses not to add to such an existing economy. Hawaii's feminism is severely contorted from the academic feminism I learned back in Ithaca, NY.

The Girl's behavior seems to be standard of Hawaii born.  I, being more cultured since my parents met in Tokyo, Japan and returned to settle in Philadelphia, PA. I am supposed to take pity on the locals who are 4th and 5th generation Americans and are "isolated" on these Hawaiian Islands. Though, I cannot pity their foolishness. They don't seem to have much established culture of their own and feel that ganging up on those of us who have other experiences from the East Coast. I still pray for solidarity from my home of New York, as well as some for my birth state of Pennsylvania even though I'm a first generation American.  I'm hoping the pakalolo out here in the Islands doesn't kill me from contact in the air. Trying to ask the locals not to smoke Pakalolo around me seems to be
too difficult for them to manage.