For many years I thought meditation was something extremely complex and out of my reach. I thought I was never going to be able to sit quietly with an empty mind for more than 5 seconds. I only recently discovered that I have already tried out a bit of meditation. I have been practising yoga for many years now, although never regularly. After some practices I have been lying down, closing my eyes and concentrating on my breath. Surprise! That’s meditation! A first step at least, but I had been engaged in meditation without my knowledge.
Since I discovered meditation is not out of my reach as I previously thought, I decided to try to willingly practice it. The other reason that pushed me to pursue this path is that I wish I could better control my reaction when someone says something hurtful to me. A few weeks ago a friend told me about this meditation technique that could have been useful to me. She told me that I had to imagine a boat in the midst of a storm, and myself observing the storm from under the water, from a place where the storm can’t reach me. In the past two weeks, it has happened to me that someone addressed violent words at me, so right after it happened, I quickly started thinking about the boat, the storm, me underwater…. I definitely have more work to do, but I was amazed about how quickly our mind can think of something else, and of how many details our mind can think of in just a few seconds. To be continued.
Blabbering of a millennial 