Is meditation really medicine?

Meditation: a fad, an extra on your to-do list, or an opportunity for real growth? Well, it can be any of those things, because it all depends on your intention for the practice. Going within and doing the true interior work that is required for change takes dedication, consistency and a willingness to be with all aspects of ourselves. Most of us are like grasshoppers, bouncing from one place to another. Stillness is the medicine where serenity arises and flows into all areas of your life. Instead of infecting your life with busyness and other people’s thoughts and ideas, stillness encourages the infection to heal through space, silence, love and presence. Meditation is an opportunity to gain insight into your own inner world. Every answer you seek, lives there. The requirement is that you trust that still, small voice within, that whisper that calls often, but are you listening? It’s an infinite world, and when we become an explorer of the infinite within, we can travel to magical places and find out so much about ourselves.

There are so many wonderful aspects of each and every one of us that lie hidden or dormant. Each one of us has a unique and special purpose on this planet. It can be all too easy to fall for the ‘not good enough’ message that gets pumped into us all from all angles from an early age. When we journey within, we get to peel off the layers and uncover our true beauty and, let me tell you — a diamond has nothing on you!