03/23/2026
I’ve been meditating for 12 years this year.
It wasn’t always a dedicated practice, something I dabbled with and for the most part didn’t really get.
Sitting for 10 minutes never felt enough time to quiet my thoughts and emotions, but it did help me to learn to sit with them. I didn’t know that at the time.
But then after a few years I felt compelled to sit. When I had a s**t day, when I was frustrated with my kids. I knew sitting on my cushion would take the “edge off” and it worked 100% of the time.
My sits got longer. I used to figit every 10 seconds. But have to come a place that I can sit undisturbed for well over an hour, I see how this leaks out in my life.
I used to be so reactionary, learning to BE with the discomfort of my mind helped me learn to pause and respond in SO may ways. I still struggle with this but the shift is palpable.
The ability to be in the role of the witnesser is powerful, for I don’t allow my thoughts to get out of hand any longer. I hear my higher self whisper to small self a million times a day when I catch myself in thought..
“hey darling, come back here now” and I do.
The way I can feel how emotions, thoughts and visions feels in my body. How I can use this knowing to guide my path.
How it’s taught me to offer compassion to myself again and again. How I can’t help but offer that out into the world now
How I see and deeply know now. It’s all passing through, passing by, forever in motion.
I can stay with this, it won’t last forever
Meditation has softened ever fibre of my being, softened every rough edge of my heart.
It’s been the most challenging and most rewarding gift I will ever give myself, for the path never ends. There’s always noise to process.
If we taught every 8 year old to meditate, our wars couldn’t outlast a generation. This I truly believe.
You are worth the effort to know yourself, fully, deeply.
All my love,
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