The Veda teaches us that your spontaneous interests and desires are informative. They are clues as to how best to use your unique nature and life experiences to bring more unity and evolution to the collective, moment by moment. This ancient knowledge flies in the face of the ways in which many of us are conditioned to “be a good girl/boy”, to “do what we’re told”, to achieve and succeed in a formulaic way - to exist in a way that is geared towards (conditional) acceptance rather than authenticity.

Resilience is one of those things that comes into our awareness when presented with an experience we may rather not have had ~ often an overwhelming stress, trauma, challenge or loss. For this reason, the impact of meditation on our resilience is something we may not realise until faced with adversity or met with an immense demand or challenge.