And unlike the financial crisis of 2008 which threw me into a serious tailspin. I just kind of took all the disruptions that came with COVID and stride. I credit meditation for that, It’s nothing. I can really prove, but I suspect that a disciplined meditation. Practice helps cultivate focus in other parts of your life.
That’s probably why. So many successful people do it. I feel like it plugs me in on a spiritual level too. Not too long ago. I was talking about meditation with this vocal coach, I was working with he meditates daily too and I told him that I thought my meditation practice causes the universe to conspire in my favor.
He looked at me, like I was crazy, huh? He said, I never thought about that. I just do it because it calms me, but to me that wouldn’t be enough. I don’t want to be calm. I want the universe conspiring in my fucking favor. Look on an intellectual level.
I know that magic forces aren’t trying to help me simply because I sit quietly and do nothing for 41 minutes a day, but on a more ethereal emotional level, it really feels like that’s what’s happening. And what good would it do me to undo that sort of magic? I’ve read that.
Faith is the belief in something. You don’t totally understand. I guess that’s what meditation is to me. Now in the same way that a Christian or a Muslim or a Jew might not be able to scientifically explain why their religious practice helps them. The very belief that it does is kind of the whole ballgame.
Am I telling you that? You’ve got to meditate that? It’s the key to happiness. No, I’m not. All I know. Is that the way I’ve done it. Since, 2019 has helped make my life more manageable. I’m sure there are lots of other things people do to help put structure discipline and balance in their lives.
Yoga, fasting therapy running marathons, journaling long walks in the woods, jujitsu learning to play the bassoon Microdosing LSD, but I can only tell you what has worked for me. Look, none of this has vanquished my anxieties from my life. I still feel a strong pull to accumulate base material things