Another Blog To Make You Yawn
Posted by MichaelMay 20
I begin my morning routine, for the third day in a row, with an intention of generating 20 deliberate yawns prior to meditation. If this sounds a little too weird, you gotta read the previous blog. Anyway, after about the 6th big, wide mouthed, close eyed, deeply relaxing and energizing yawn, the yawns just kind of took over and I found myself having one yawn after another, almost uncontrollably. Rather than pausing between yawns like I had intended, the yawns just wanted to keep on coming!
I could have stopped at anytime, (so I say) yet why? It was as if I was being yawned for about ten minutes. I then entered one of the deepest states of meditation that I’ve touched in a while.
So, I’m sticking with this conscious yawning practice. I’m now choosing to take-allow a yawn whenever I remember. I’ve been preaching the benefits of remembering to regularly take deep, full belly breaths. This is still a good idea, yet DELIBERATE YAWNING trumps. Crazy as it might sound, maybe you’ll join me in deliberately yawning more frequently. Maybe I’ll change the ending of my voice mail greeting to: “I invite you to take a deep, full, conscious yawn.”
12 Essential Reasons To Yawn
- Stimulates alertness and concentration
- Optimizes brain activity and metabolism
- Improves cognitive function
- Increases memory recall
- Enhance consciousness and introspection
- lowers stress
- Relaxes every part of your body
- Improve voluntary muscle control
- Enhances athletic skills
- Fine-tunes your sense of time
- Increases empathy and social awareness
- Enhances pleasure and sensitivity
This list is from the book: How God Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg, M.D.
Go ahead….You know you want to….have a few BIG YAWNS!
In Wholeness,
Michael
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