05/05/2026
The three days of silence are over. I was just getting started…
No phone. No words. No journaling. No reading. No eye contact. No visualisation. No mantras. No distractions.
Just the breath. The purest form of life.
It begins with calming the mind. Then the real work starts: purification. A deep excavation, layer by layer. Whatever is there, you meet it.
On the second day, a sharp pain in my right leg. My instinct was immediate: fix it, shift it, make it stop. The more I resisted, the worse it became.
Then the monk said something simple: don’t fight it. Don’t feed it either. Bring your attention back to the breath, and let it be. The moment I stopped needing it to go away, it loosened its grip.
How often do we do this in life? Faced with a difficult emotion, a physical pain, a situation that makes us uncomfortable — we resist, we fight it, we try to control it. And it grows. Or we chase the opposite, clinging to comfort, certainty, something we desire that’s not manifesting and we suffer when it slips away or doesn’t come at all.
Vipassana teaches equanimity, through lived experience. The capacity to be with what is, without losing balance.
I came out more focused, more present, calmer. Lighter in my body, lighter in my mind. Sharper in my discernment. Clearer about what matters and where I want to spend my time and energy.
Less pushing. More flow. Less averse to the uncomfortable. Less attached to the blissful. Just here with what is.
Vipassana doesn’t give you anything new. It uncovers what was always there — waiting beneath the noise, the doing, the reaching.
One step closer to total freedom.
If you’d like to experience a guided meditation to clear the noise and hear what your soul is truly calling for, I have a free one available. Link in bio.
