Spirit Science

I started meditating this year. I had no idea what difference it was going to make to my life. It is amazing. I cannot recommend it enough.

When I started I was a bag of stress and did not know how to get out of it. A friend of mine suggested the  app. Which is great because you only need to start off with ten minutes. And everyone can manage ten minutes. And I have to say I was one of those lucky people for whom results were pretty much instant.

From the first session I felt a sense of physical and mental calm which I hadn’t had in years. And then I carried on and all kinds of things started happening. Everyone’s journey is unique, because everyone’s mind and body are unique, but here are some of the things that started happening for me:

I stopped being overwhelmed by my thoughts. For years I had been terrified of my thoughts, without even realising it. Fear of fear prevented me from doing and thinking all kinds of things. The deliberately unconscious messages driving me started slowing down enough and floating to the surface for me to be able to see them. And instead of being managed by them, and very often running away from them, I started being able just to look at them and make choices about whether I was going to allow myself to respond to them or not.

I was able to do more, and with less stress. Before meditation, I would avoid all kinds of activities because they would make me stressed. All kinds. Obvious things like tax returns and big events at work. But also even things I knew would make my life feel better, and probably would enjoy while doing them. Sometimes because of concentric rings of anxiety, so tightly wound they were impossible to observe, never mind unpick or negate.

My creativity returned.

My relationships with people started improving.

Opportunities began to open up spontaneously, socially and at work.

I started being able to read for pleasure again.

I started to be able to be honest with myself.

I started drinking less.

My brain power improved.

I started feeling more coherent, and connected, and less jagged.

For the first time in my life my mind started to become a place I enjoyed being.

All this from just twenty minutes a day. There is so much to read out there about the benefits and how to do it.  is a good overview.