“I wish I could meditate. My mind isn’t made for that!” or “I can’t stand being still”, a few of the most common excuses why people tell me they “can’t meditate”.
My twenty-fifth birthday was coming at me like an out of control locomotive with a sleeping driver. The number made me uneasy and it was coming too fast. Like a doe, hypnotized by the headlights, I felt helpless to stop it.
Something was wrong, missing, empty and completely inexpressible. I’d been searching my entire life for something. . . peace, stillness, answers, meaning maybe?
In my mid to early twenties, I was very out of touch with my own feelings and emotions.
It was hard, but as I kept on it things got easier.
Finally, with Buddhism, I was beginning to unlock the tools needed to understand and shape my own mind. Somedays progress crawled along at what felt like a snail’s pace, but every week as I continued to practice it got easier.
Every day I am needing to remind myself less and less, thanks to a very conscious choice I made years ago to change my life.
Hope this helps!
Yours truly,
Margaret Jean.
For more on the power of positive thinking from Michigan University see: https://www.uofmhealth.org/node/651843
To learn more see: https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/doing-good-deeds-helps-socially-anxious-people-relax/679444
*From a Penn State University study. Read more at: http://news.psu.edu/story/343727/2015/02/05/research/annual-report-offers-snapshot-us-college-students%E2%80%99-mental-health
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