Why It Is Important to Know Your Myth
In search of what lies within, through the Gothic
A few years ago I was invited to a meditation group on WhatsApp. The first thing I thought was “I don’t have time for this”, and I kind of proceeded to tell my friend and student I couldn’t promise anything. Her reply was something along the lines of: what can you lose by having a go? You can do it at the end of the day when you’ve finished your classes, or first thing in the morning to activate you. You decide.
That flexibility and freedom she gave me is what made me stay and even finish the task. The same had happened around the same time when I was persuaded to have a chat with a dietician when one day in the chemist I was going to buy an anticellulite cream. The first thing I told the expert as I walked through the door was that I couldn’t promise anything as I have never been good at putting food restrictions on myself. When he replied that the sheet he was going to give me every two weeks was only a guide and not something fixed to obsess about was when I stayed until the end of the process.
So that’s what I did with this invitation, despite not having a clue on how to meditate, who Deepak Chopra was, or what “mantra” meant. I didn’t even know how to sit properly for that matter. But I did it anyway.
