Ever since Buddha lived, people have believed that meditation produces insights about life. While this may be true for some, it’s not how it is for me. I get my insights by thinking through a chain of events and seeing what can be a cause and an effect. It can be recent events, or it can be events from a long time ago. This is, what I refer to, as doing an inner journey. Often, my insights come through association, ie when one word can mean, or symbolise, or describe, two things, which means I can access a memory by association and then look at it from an adult point of view.

However, what meditation does for me, is to clear my mind, to wind down, to relax, to center myself, and to slow down, or silence, my thoughts. This eventually produces stillness and therethrough the opportunity to start anew, to begin thinking of something more deliberately by choice, or even to start creating something.

Inhale. Exhale.