Senior Seminar Product Description
For my senior project product I will have someone taking numerous photos and taking a video while I am in the middle of my meditation lessons. I will also provide my previous report card and my next report card to show how meditation has helped me academically. When I first start meditating I will proceed to keep a journal on my daily life until I complete my project. Doing this will provide me with a product that will show how meditation has improved my life socially. This product will be a challenge for me because this is a subject that I have never bothered to familiarize myself with before. So everything that I encounter during the course of this project will be completely fresh and new to my knowledge and experience. I have no prior knowledge of meditation which is one of the main reasons why I have chosen to expand my knowledge on this subject. I hope by the end of this semester and project I will have more than enough knowledge of meditation that I will continue to meditate throughout my life. For my practical experience hours that I have to complete I will be attending a meditation class either once or twice a week for one hour. Hopefully my mentor will be instructing the class so I can get my required hours with them as well. Maybe towards the end of the semester when I am close to completing my project I will be skilled enough to be able to instruct a class on meditation myself. My job will provide me with enough money to pay for the lessons if necessary. I have no mentor at the moment since my intended one had fallen through. But I will hopefully have acquired a mentor by the end of this week. I am looking for someone that is well experienced in meditation and has knowledge of its religious backgrounds and history. I have an idea of where I will find my next mentor. A group of people meet at the Kava Bar on S. Lexington every Wednesday to meditate. Hopefully one of them will be interested in mentoring me in meditation for this semester. I will be asking them to help teach me the different styles of meditation if they are familiar with them. I have no estimated cost at the moment, but I am looking for meditation lessons that cost no more than $15-$20 per lesson. There are no supplies I need for meditation that I know of. I hope to learn the religious background and history of how meditation came to be. I will also like to learn how meditation helps you medically, academically, and socially, which is what I will be proving in my research paper. I will be interviewing many meditation specialists and persons who use meditation in their everyday life, to help prove my argument that meditation does in fact help you medically, academically, and socially. Scientific and medical articles will also help me provide answers to my questions. The photographs I will be documenting will include me and my mentor meditating, some in the middle of my lesson and some of when I am meditating on my own time. I will also photograph me doing different styles of meditation to show how many varieties of meditation there are. The video that I will be documenting will consist of me meditating for the first time while my mentor instructs me on how to do so. My product will be interesting and creative because I will demonstrate the simple beginners’ way of meditating while presenting my project. My product will be colorful and full of enough photographs and a video to keep my audience interested while I present. I hope that it is an interesting enough subject that I won’t bore my audience to sleep. While I am presenting I will demonstrate how to start meditating. Afterwards I will display the video that I recorded of me meditating for the first time. While I am speaking of the history and different forms of meditation I will proceed to point out the pictures of each style of meditation that I am performing. Completing this product will indeed be a challenge for me, but a challenge that I hope to conquer. I am looking forward to expanding my knowledge and experience in meditation.