| A few years ago if someone had asked me | | | | tapes. These showed me techniques and solutions |
| whether or not I would consider using meditation | | | | that I could implement in my life to get it going in |
| as part of my daily routine I would have laughed. | | | | the direction that I wanted it to. However, there |
| Who was I to need meditation? After all I had TV | | | | was still an absense of peace. It was not until my |
| Programmes to watch, Playstations to play, Music | | | | mum gave me a Meditation CD that I began to |
| to listen to, Magazines to read, Friends to chatter | | | | feel a sense of peace and happiness about my |
| with and everything else under the sun. I didn't | | | | life. |
| need meditation. Or so I thought. At that time I | | | | I can still remember my first meditation. I started |
| looked upon meditation as something cranky, | | | | listening to the soothing music and imagined the |
| something that perhaps took place at a commune | | | | glorious white light filling my body and radiating |
| or some other barren location. No, I live in the | | | | peace and healing. I felt a numbness, a sort of |
| modern world with loads of gagdets and gizmos, | | | | immunity to any bad feelings and a magical tingling |
| why on earth would I even consider trying | | | | feel all over my skin. I was no longer attached to |
| something as ludicrous as closing my eyes and | | | | the material world and its limitations and felt at |
| just relaxing. Well, that was my previous | | | | one with my spirit. I experienced more relaxation, |
| viewpoint and one that I held until I reached a | | | | sense of belonging and peace in my soul than in |
| point when things weren't going to well in my life | | | | any other time in my life. |
| and I needed a solution. | | | | If for any reason at all you are experiencing |
| At this point in time I had begun to ask some | | | | stress, anxiety, worry, fear, over-whelment you |
| serious questions about my life. I had entered the | | | | must meditate. This is the cure, the path, the |
| phase that I now like to call " The Searching | | | | way to peace. When you start your life will |
| Phase". I started to read some Personal | | | | change in ways beyond what you could possibly |
| Development books and listened to a couple of | | | | have imagined. |