The best investments I’ve ever made are those that have given me knowledge and practices that support me to feel safe in my body, to have space between me and my thoughts, to know myself deeply. To stop living in the past and the future. To stop seeking happiness in possessions, titles and relationships and find happiness at its source: inside myself. To be self-sufficient for my own happiness.

I've come to learn through my own experience and with the great honour of being a Vedic meditation teacher, that relaxation is our natural state. Stress is a common state that we have normalised, but it's not normal.

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.

Your needs as a human being are uniquely yours, and they’re changing all the time. This is where Vedic meditation comes in. Every meditation allows the nervous system to throw off stress, thereby making it easier to detect from inside what you need to feel safe, healthy and whole.

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.

The Sanskrit word ~ soma ~ means flow of consciousness. That which we put our attention ~ or soma ~ on will amplify or grow stronger in our awareness. The simple action of directing our awareness onto something will create more of it.

From the Vedic perspective, to make decisions and take action based on your fine level of feeling is to allow universal intelligence to be your guide. This is how we make our personal contribution to the evolution of all things, which is the purpose of life and creation.

The more regularly we give the mind the experience of settling down and transcending thought, like we do when practicing Vedic meditation, we find our thoughts, speech and action spring forth from a place of deep inner wisdom that is unimpeded by stress. We discover that our consciousness knows no limitations.

Every thought we have has a ripple effect. On our state of mind, our body, our environment and those around us. A regular Vedic meditation practice allows us to gently return to a lightness in our mind and body and become a contributor of peace to the world around us.

When we learn Vedic meditation, we switch on the lights. Adding consciousness to the mind is like adding light to a dark room.