21/05/2026
When I was 16, my Dad enrolled our whole family into Transcendental Meditation. At the time, it felt incredibly strange.
As a teenager, sitting quietly for 20 minutes twice a day with my eyes closed felt almost impossible at first. My mind would wander constantly, and I remember wondering how this could possibly be helping anything.
But slowly, something began to shift.
What first felt unfamiliar became a quiet space I began looking forward to. A feeling of deep rest. Calm. Expansion. Almost like the mind was not on a constant loop of thoughts and reactions.
Over time, meditation became part of our family rhythm. Morning and evening, we would all quietly disappear into our own corners of the house to meditate. Looking back now, there was something incredibly grounding and comforting about that shared ritual.
Transcendental Meditation is a simple mantra-based practice which allows the mind to settle beyond the constant noise of thought into a quieter state of awareness.
From an Ayurvedic perspective, practices like meditation help calm the nervous system, reduce excess Vata and cultivate more Sattva; clarity, steadiness and peace within the mind.
Life still brings challenges, uncertainty and change, but meditation gave me a different relationship with them. Not because life became easier, but because my mind slowly became quieter and less reactive.
It taught me that beneath all the movement and noise of life, there is another part of ourselves that remains still, quiet and untouched. A deep inner stillness where, for a few moments, the mind simply rests.
Years later, this still remains one of the greatest gifts my Dad ever gave us.
In a world that constantly pulls our attention outward, meditation reminds us there is an entire universe within us too. Sometimes doing less allows us to feel so much more.
Do you have a daily ritual that brings you a sense of peace or stillness? I would love to know what that is.
