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💬 Said Simply
In my BVM Days (Life-Before Vedic Meditation), my internal thought loops were constantly peppered with the dreaded three-letter word: W-H-Y.
This question spawned a thousand variations in my stressed-out mind: Hmmm, why? WHY?!!!! SERIOUSLY, WHYYYYYYY C’mon, I give up, WHY. Just tell me now!
I was constantly wondering why things were happening to me (that I didn’t want), why things weren’t happening fast enough (according to my timeline), and why I kept feeling blindsided (when life refused to follow my script).
You know the drill.
Back then, life wasn’t cooperating with my expectations, so there was a symphony of WHY’ing happening 24/7.
Now, in my AVM-era (Life-After-Vedic-Meditation), my mind is calm enough and my nervous system regulated enough that I have the freedom and spaciousness to answer that frantic question with a single, powerful word:
EVOLUTION.
More on all this below.
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Subscribe Now✨ The Cosmic Giggle
Here are THREE brain-melting facts about this supercomputer between your ears:
- Your mental chatter clocks in at 4,000 words per minute (basically, you’re processing one Harry Potter book every half hour)
- Your five senses guzzle 75 gigabytes of data per day (an entire Game of Thrones series in 24 hours)
- The sheer demand of processing this load is what causes that overwhelm, fatigue, and “system shutdown” you feel during the day
No wonder I find myself using this 🤯 emoji when contemplating the plight of the modern human!
Here are THREE more (infinitely more hopeful!) facts about your magnificent brain:
- There’s a layer of your mind, beyond all those thoughts, that’s quiet, serene, and utterly silent
- The mantras we use in Vedic Meditation are precision-built to take you there
- When you practice VM with these mantras, you can start melting into this layer of silence within the first few minutes
Vedic Meditation helps you unplug, reset, and untangle all the day’s chaos.
I used to call VM my “brain shower” that I took twice daily. Ten years later, that’s exactly what it still feels like.
If your brain feels overdue for a shower, get in touch and let’s get you feeling fresh again.
🔍 Behind The Scenes
If I could summarize my twenties in one GIF, it would be a very sweet but frustrated Jennifer Aniston wondering what she ever did to “life” to constantly be surprised:
With perspective, a steady meditation practice, and enough life experience to connect the dots, I feel confident in that one-word answer:
EVOLUTION.
Evolution is why it’s happening.
Evolution is why anything is happening.
Evolution is why everything is happening.
With meditation, we release the stress and worry that blocks us from zooming out and gaining perspective.
In that spaciousness, we begin to make out the constellation of cause and effect and the roadmap to progress.
Without the white-knuckled “my plan is the only thing I can rely on” mentality, we open to the possibility that everything happens for all the right reasons, guiding our greatest evolution.
Meditators often ask if this one-word answer feels satisfying.
It’s not about satisfaction.
Even when I feel pangs of sadness or wonder about “what could have been,” I continue moving toward greater progress because that’s how it’s always been, and that’s how it will always be. That knowingness feels complete, correct, and true.
And having that as my baseline? That feels like freedom.
