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How 39 Months of Daily Meditation Has Helped My Mental Health
It’s helped me in a way I did not expect.
There’s nothing easy about life. There’s an unsettling lack of certainty and predictability about it all. When you wake up tomorrow morning, you don’t get to decide what happens next. If the current pandemic has taught us anything it’s that life can take twists and turns we did not expect.
That’s not to say that life is bad. Life can bring us incredible moments. Beautiful moments. It’s just that, at best, you can influence only a small piece of this world we live in. At worst, you’re a leaf tumbling in the wind.
And so, in your heart of hearts, you know the truth — there is a vast amount of worry and anxiety underpinning your life.
You worry about breaking up with your partner. You worry about underperforming at work. You worry about whether you’re a good friend or daughter or father. You worry about what people will think of you. You worry that you chose the wrong career. You worry about your legacy. You worry about getting COVID or, worse, passing it along to someone more vulnerable than you.
On top of all this, it can sometimes feel like a thousand voices are all crying out that you’re simply not good enough.
