Welcome to Chay’s #MeMeditating story —  part of our #MeMeditating series, where students share their real-life stories of how Vedic Meditation affects their lives.

 

I’m Chay.

 

What inspired you to learn Vedic Meditation?

I was curious about learning meditation as a way of enhancing my life experiences. I was searching for more calmness and an ability to cope smoothly with life’s ups and downs.

 

I’d not heard of Vedic Meditation — when it showed itself on a Google search on meditation, something about what I read appealed. I enrolled for an introductory talk with London Meditation Centre. I liked the talk and the appeal of Vedic Meditation was growing, but my mind was saying “you probably won’t follow through with this, and you’ll just go back to your old ways of quiet thinking, petty frustrations and muddling through.” My mind was wrong, and my inner feeling of following the appeal to learn Vedic Meditation won through.

 

Intuition: after two years of regular Vedic Meditation, this is one of the big improvements in my life that I have noticed — learning to listen to and trust my inner feelings more than my logical thought.

 

What changes and benefits have you experienced since learning?

More calmness plus coping more smoothly with life’s ups and downs certainly happened, along with many other improvements in my life that I had not expected:

• My daily interactions with people are much more pleasant. This applies to my family and friends as well as the casual acquaintances and strangers that we daily come in contact with.
• Learning to trust my inner feelings.
• Organising my day, and completing tasks both roll along quite happily and without any noticeable stress.
• More restfulness and loss of fatigue.
• Definitely I feel more content and much less apprehensive.

 

How have you adapted to fitting meditation into your life on a daily basis?

Vedic Meditation started for me 2 months after I retired, so finding time was not a problem. That said, time was an issue for me. After 45 years of full time work, stepping away from the controlled patterns that imposed was not a comfortable feeling. Learning Vedic Meditation has been a real boon in helping me to comfortably adjust to my changed circumstances