Actual date of recorded meditation: Feb 11th, 2009

    Today marks the official start of working on my mental discipline training through meditation.  Tonight I chose to meditate in Savasana.  Asana, translated means "pose", and Savasana is corpse pose.  This pose is usally practiced after doing a series of asanas to quiet and focus your mind. 
   I enjoy practicing Pranayama, which is a practice that you work with your breath.  I find it a bit easier to quiet my mind with pranayama, thus helping me to meditate more effectivly.  Some days it is easy for me to sink into a meditative state, other times not. I had trouble tonight though.  I attempted to use imagery in conjunction with my breath, but my mind was far to busy to saty focused.  I believe that I will set a goal to work on holding one image for a short period of time.  I think that exercise might help me towards a goal of being able to quiet my mind.