Personal Narrative: How Meditation Changed My Life

Before I take a meditation class, I haven’t thought about the meditation. Now, I know it changed me many things, so I wanted to tell my family about it. My mother have a insomnia. She sleep about 3~4 hours at night and about one hours in the afternoon. She used said she sleep well but she always walk around in house all night. By Chinese zodiac sign, she is the year of the dag. That’s why she cannot sleep and take care of a house. I am the year of the mouse, so I like to get out and walk outside and walk. I like smell and wind of the night. My sister is the year of the tiger. Her personality is like a tiger and my father is year of monkey and very similar with monkey too. It is very interesting. My father is very distract like me, so he also needs meditation. My brother is usually quiet, so I thought probably he like it.
On Saturday, my family came to Portland for meditation together. I live in dormitory myself,so my room is very small. I told them to take comfortable clothes. We had dinner together and changed …show more content…
I aware of everything around me and if I hear wind sound, I imagine that I am an a green field with eyes close. When I am hearing water sound, I imagine that I am at the waterfall. Nobody around me. I am just thinking about nature than I can focus about my breath and aware of present moments. I teach them what is Taijitu and explain about the illustration. Yin is the darker element. It represents passive, dark, feminine, receiving, recipient, malleable, matter, downward-seeking, and corresponds to the night. Yang is the brighter element. It represents energy, activity, warmth, spirit, light, masculine, upward-seeking and corresponds to the day. Yin is often symbolized by water, while yang is symbolized by fire. After that, We had another ten minute meditating. My family was having a hard time focusing on present moment, but I knew that they