Connecting With Cannabis

After I indulge in cannabis, which is a major part of my morning ritual, I take the time to connect with my(higher)self, and thank the cannabis gods!

Not everyone has a morning ritual or takes the time to connect with your creator the way I do, but cannabis

is a major component to my faith, the 420 faith, I was born on 4/20, so I am 420, seriously.

I always consumer some form of cannabis before I meditate, and it automatically connects me, no matter where I am of what I am doing, the connection is always made. I would do little experiments to see if I could actually do it in a crazy ass busy place, people often think the more you focus the more engaged you'll be, but that's not it at all, you have to release, and cannabis would show me the way to do that big time. I felt the air, listened to all the sounds, then, I focused deep inside of me and it drowned everything out, it was incredible that I was able to achieve my connection without forcing it.

I use to work with a fake wellness guru who had me write all of her content, she never succeeded due to her fakeness, but let me share a 10 minute meditation I created for her with you, this can be performed after you consume cannabis, which will help you on so many different levels, spiritually, physically and mentally.

There are more than a few ways you can do it if you don't have your own method, and oh yeah....don't for get the cannabis!

Mindfulness & Meditation

Meditation has many different interpretations and definitions; there is one where people think meditation is purely for relaxation, it is not about concentration, it’s actually about de-concentration. It’s not about focusing one’s thoughts on one thing, but instead on becoming thoughtless, which can be true depending on the purpose, meditation is a practice where an individual or group uses techniques such as mindfulness, guided sessions or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

It’s amazing to see the many different types of meditation people practice all across the world, in fact there are 23 different types recorded online that help your mind, body and soul in so many ways, but here are the 7 most common ones, which range from beginner to advances styles and techniques.

Types of meditation

• Loving-kindness meditation.

Loving Kindness Practice:

1. To begin, take a comfortable seated position.

2. Find phrases you'd like to use to offer good wishes.

3. Bring someone to mind that’s been kind to you.

4. Bring a neutral person to mind.

5. If it feels workable, bring to mind someone with whom you experience difficulty.

6. Calling someone to mind with whom there’s difficulty, repeat the phrases towards them.

7. Expand your awareness to all beings, everywhere so the universe receives your vibes and energy.

• Progressive relaxation.

Progressive relaxation or body scan Practice, you can do this independently or guided:

1. Sit in a comfortable position, with eyes closed. Take a few deep breaths, expanding your belly as you breathe air in and contracting it as you exhale.

2. Begin at the top of your body, and go down. Start with your head, tensing your facial muscles, squeezing your eyes shut, puckering your mouth and clenching your jaw. Hold, then release and breathe.

3. Tense as you lift your shoulders to your ears, hold, then release and breathe.

4. Make a fist with your right hand; tighten the muscles in your lower and upper arm, hold, and then release. Breathe in and out. Repeat with left hand.

5. Concentrate on your back, squeezing shoulder blades together. Hold, then release. Breathe in and out.

6. Suck in your stomach, hold, and then release. Breathe in and out.

7. Clench your buttocks, hold, and then release. Breathe in and out.

8. Tighten your right hamstring, hold, and then release. Breathe in and out. Repeat with left hamstring.

9. Flex your right calf, hold, and then release. Breathe in and out. Repeat with left calf.

10. Tighten toes on your right foot, hold, and then release. Breathe in and out. Repeat with left foot.

• Breathe awareness meditation.

Breathe Practice: Repeat for 10 minutes or how ever long you feel you need to do it.

Try breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth.

For a slower, more relaxing meditation, try the 4-7-8 exercise.

1. Exhale, then close your mouth and inhale for four seconds,

2. hold your breath for 7 seven seconds

3. Exhale over the course of 8 seconds.

4. Repeat

• Kundalini Yoga.

Breathe is usual practiced in a class, but you can still perform this meditation independently:

Here Are 5 Things to Expect in First Kundalini Yoga Class:

1. Key Kundalini Mantras. A mantra is a sound vibration that is said to alter your brain chemistry and consciousness.

2. Kriya most commonly refers to a "completed action", technique or practice within a yoga discipline meant to achieve a specific result. Another meaning of Kriya is an outward physical manifestation of awakened kundalini, such as a spontaneous body movement related to Kundalini energy flow.

3. Pranayama. is a Sanskrit word alternatively translated as "extension of the prāṇa" or "breath control." The word is composed from two Sanskrit words: prana meaning life force, and either ayama or the negative form ayāma, meaning to extend or draw out. It is a yogic discipline with origins in ancient India, kind of like Ying and Yang in the Asian persuasion.

4. Everyone Wearing White.

5. Meditation.

• Zen Meditation.

Zen is a meditative discipline that is typically the primary practice of the Zen Buddhist tradition. The precise meaning and method of zazen varies from school to school, but in general it can be regarded as a means of insight into the nature of existence.

• Transcendental Meditation.

Transcendental Practice:

1. Choose a mantra to use. Or use “OM.

2. Find somewhere peaceful. Sit with good posture. Relax

3. Mindfully observe your breath flowing through your body.

4. Bring your mantra to mind.

5. Visualize the mantra.

6. Let the mantra go where it wants. Don’t control the mind.

7. Begin to recite your mantra while meditating on the sound.

8. Feel the mantra resonating within you.

9. Repeat your mantra 108 times while meditating on it.

10. Finish meaningfully. Express gratitude for the meditation session.

Now finally on the method we are focusing on in this module...

• Mindfulness meditation.

Mindfulness Practice:

1. Take a seat. Find a place to sit that feels calm and quiet to you.

2. Set a time limit. If you're just beginning, it can help to choose a short time, such as 5 or 10 minutes.

3. Notice your body.

4. Feel your breath.

5. Notice when your mind has wandered.

6. Be kind to your wandering mind.

7. Stay here for a few minutes

8. Check in before you check out.

Mindfulness is gaining a growing popularity as a practice in daily life, apart from religious insight, meditation and its application in clinical psychology is defined as moment by moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, characterized mainly by acceptance attention to thoughts and feelings without judging whether they are right or wrong. Mindfulness focuses the human brain on what is being sensed at each moment, mindfulness may be seen as a mode of being, and can be practiced outside a formal setting.

Affirmations are messages that you repeated over and over, and eventually they begin to weave their way into your mind, slowly changing both your thinking and your reality. Positive affirmations might begin as wishful thinking, but they end up manifesting in your reality.

In new thought and new age lingo refer mainly to the practice of positive thinking and self empowerment development as a belief that a positive mental attitude supported by affirmations will achieve success in anything. Particularly, an affirmation is a specifically formatted statement that should be repeated to one's self and written down frequently. For affirmations to be effective, it is said that they need to be present tense, positive, personal and specific. For example “I am success, I am abundance”, these days if you can’t create your own, you can find an endless supply online and even find special videos on Youtube.com that focus on anything you desire.

If you practice them and they don’t work, the reason is that they target the conscious level of your mind, but not the subconscious. If what you are trying to affirm is incongruent with a deeply held negative belief, then all that results is an inner struggle and you will not achieve success, so deprogram your old belief system if it’s not working, and start to program your mind the with the correct information.

Applying cannabis to any of these methods will elevate your experience to such a satisfying level, you will notice your life start changing for the better, mine did!

Please don't forget to give thanks to cannabis!