This meditation pierced a veil for me. I tend to think I'm fairly chill in my interaction with life. I pride myself on my patience and being unperturbed by upsets. In looking for an area of upset, I started with general politics, and that was too diffuse to latch on to. Then, I found a relationship in my life that is suffering badly, that I gloss over. I nearly fell out of my chair. I don't even think of it any longer, but I realize that I am severely incomplete with this person. In following the RAIN meditation, I was able to separate myself from the upset and create this person in a different light. Amazing.

As I take on meditating during the day, I find myself beginning to crave those ten minutes. Around the middle of the Finding the Breath meditation, Aaron says, "see if you can follow one complete breath.." I love that as something I can do with an extra twenty seconds of my day.

I had the opportunity to participate in a meditation presented by the family of David Lynch, who passed away a few days ago. His film work absolutely changed the course of my life and I owe him a debt of gratitude. He was a great proponent of Transcendental Meditation. The meditation itself was not guided. It was ten minutes of silence with inspiring words before and after. I used attention to my breath the whole time. It was like swimming in a quarry pond when you don't know the depth. https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/

Not a question, just a note on practice. I am choosing to start my day with the meditations. My goal being that I will actually be more present and mindful throughout the day. I never really looked at my activities whatever they are as being “mindful”. Of course I never had a clue about Mindfulness either. It’s all new to me…

This is a very important and powerful way of looking at your practice. It goes hand in hand with my number one communication: Be Kind With Yourself. The deeper you allow this idea to sink in the better.