Life-Changing Lessons From Thirty-Days Of Transcendental Meditation

Friday Flow- Consider That Maybe There Is Something Magical Waiting In The Spaces Between

Kiring. Kiring. Kiring.These are the words I silently chanted thirty minutes a day for over thirty days. It’s as if silence created a bond between my mind, heart, and spirit that gave me the courage to enter the dark caverns of my soul. And while I don’t know what my matra means, I have cleared space for truth to surface in my life.

Ancient teachings show that a silent mantra is more potent for transformation than anything we can do for our minds. A mantra is a mind vehicle towards a place of stillness within. The value of using mantras does not lie within meaning but within its vibrational qualities. Through repetition, we disconnect from attachment in the world and transcend into the spaces between our inner and outer worlds.

It’s time to enter the dark caverns untouched.

Dark Caverns

Feelings. The discovery of myself
from the inside out as I create
between the spaces to let
it all go and suddenly, my words
form in the shape of a mentor and
I am lighter as my heart softens
and the sharpness of my pen signifies
I am walking through dark caverns untouched.

Transcendental meditation is an age-old warrior practice that allows us to go beyond the surface of life. While there are many layers within each of our lives, history shows us how important it is to take a moment to sit with ourselves so we can cultivate an understanding of what makes us want to avoid slowing down. “It’s by going down into the abyss,” Joseph Campbell said, “that we recover the treasures in life. “

Unfortunately, the modern world does everything it can to prevent us from entering the dark caverns we need to enter. We never allow ourselves to slow down and exist on the surface of life by searching for our worth. We abandon the truth of our stories at the expense of living with chaos. And because our bodies are in constant starvation for silence, we get stuck in a perpetual state of problem-solving based upon past trauma that builds walls of tension, eventually causing us to react with anger, depression, or worse.