One of the major life changes of a long time practice of meditation is the gradual process of becoming a less reactive person and more proactive in regard to how we respond to challenges - major and minor - that life presents to us. It's the slowing of the mind, the ability (through months, years of practice) of watching our thoughts and gaining a certain detachment from them. We become witness to our thoughts a swell as the space that falls between them. As a witness we are no longer personally involved and we can afford a proactive response of being kid rather then a reactive gesture from being caught in any given moment in the crowded cell of thoughts that keep us imprisoned by their hold. Meditation gains us space and with space is room to manuaver, to breathe and to simply allow what is. This is the true magic of meditation - it's a life aide, the most useful tool that spirit offers.
Try it.
Peace,
Eric
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