Here’s What Will Happen if you Meditate for 50 Days
Or ‘An Experiment in Meditation: 50 Days and Counting…’
I have started and stopped meditation so many times in my life. It’s a concept that seems to get a mention in every counselling session and every self-help article there is — meditating is given as the ultimate solution to a wide range of problems. From reducing stress, increasing self-awareness, increasing kindness, and supporting emotional health, through to actively benefitting long term memory, fighting addiction, improving sleep, and controlling blood pressure… The benefits are huge, and varied.
I was first given a guided meditation to listen to and follow along with as a result of a few sessions with a psychologist, back in 2006. I remember distinctly; my mum put on the CD in the living room and the voice that came on was my psychologist’s own. I cringed so hard. His guidance felt cheesy and really rather uncomfortable. It doesn’t help that I was 16 years old, didn’t get it/anything, didn’t really know how to ask for or receive help, and was really only at the beginning of what would be a big journey towards understanding my own anxiety and tendencies towards depression. At that point, I was really only dipping a toe in, and I had very little understanding of what meditation, of all things, was going to do for me. Needless to say…
