For me the year 2024 was filled with a lot of revealing experiences of the power of and the need for meditation. 

Contrary to what might appear (everything moving along smoothly), I have had many moments in 2024 that seemed very challenging including loss of sleep, physical pain and deep rooted fears. I am not unique. I believe this is a human experience that each one of us goes through. 

However it is also a fact that the answers for me have emerged through wisdom, breath-work, meditation and inspiring company. A renewed and reinforced understanding that learning happens not in those moments where you were exposed to the wisdom, but in the moments when you were challenged by what life throws at you.

In those moments when you are in the clutches of some deep rooted agony, the wisdom of letting go, being nothing, wanting nothing and doing nothing gave true relief. It was not an apathetic relief of giving up, but a powerful surrender from which new ideas and inspiration germinate to chart a more purposeful existence.

I felt joyful despite circumstances being almost the same as before. 

I recently had this realisation (by no means original, but inspired by Why We Sleep – Mathew Walker, in which I find parallels between REM sleep and deep meditative experiences) on why the random unconnected ruminations in meditation are so beneficial to our wakeful activities. 

The Meditative Network – Building Paths For Creativity and Clarity

I hope you buy into the value of meditation and in that hope is also a desire to strengthen this personal connection between us, inspired by The Art of Living. 

I invite you to a group Sudarshan Kriya practice on Jan 5th to ring in the new year. It will be an opportunity to create one more memory together to be in wisdom and meditation together. 

Please give me a thumbs up if you will join me on the 5th of Jan at the Art of Living Centre. Link to register https://wix.to/W0dqt1y

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.