self-care is not an indulgence;
it is vital
you cannot pour from an empty cup.
I can’t meditate because
my mind won’t stop thinking.
Me too. That was what I believed about myself until I learned Vedic meditation.
I hear this comment more than any other, when people find out I meditate, and teach meditation. And I agree.
As someone who tried many different types of meditation before coming to Vedic Meditation, I can attest to this statement. Meditation can feel difficult in the beginning, and seems to require a lot of effort and concentration with certain techniques.
What I suggest is this – experiment. Try different techniques and figure out what suits you and works for you.
Chances are, you buy coffee from the same café each morning, catch the bus at the same time everyday, walk the same route to work daily. Day in day out, week after week, and pretty soon, you find yourself wondering “Where has the year gone?”
Days start to feel the same – stressful, exhausting, and not a lot of fun.
Is this what life is about? Is this all there is?
Once our systems reach their threshold and begin to overload – the mind, body and our nervous system begins to strain, and we start experiencing friction and disharmony. It starts off as a small, niggling feeling of discomfort, irritability or just not feeling 100%. To compensate or distract ourselves from the discomfort, we find ways to cope – excessive drinking, overeating, obsessive gym exercise, recreational drugs, shopping ’til you drop and so on.
And the thing is, we will feel good. We will experience temporary “relief” from the discomfort, but these activities, when used in this manner over a period of time, will ultimately create greater amounts of stress, tension and fatigue. If we continue to live this way, eventually we find that we get less and less comfort from our coping activities.
On the surface, everything looks good – we are ticking the boxes √. But we know it is not, we can feel it. We begin to realise that we will never experience true fulfilment or happiness from these things.
Instead of looking outside ourselves, we start to look inwards.
And this is when we begin to meditate.
Testimonials
My family learned Vedic meditation with Kimberley during the lockdown period and it was the best decision we ever made.
Kimberley was so so kind and warm and gentle with us, ever so patient teaching 2 pretty cranky and burnt out adults and 2 very hyper kids. Learning and practising meditation as a family has changed each of us and our family as a unit. It feels like we are more connected to each other than ever and have access to a lifetime tool that will help us to keep growing as individuals and as a family. I can't say thank you enough.
As I've been telling all my family and friends, go and learn to meditate properly from a teacher like Kimberley. It will change your life in ways you never expect and you will be a nicer kinder human being for it.
— Beatrice
I've been wanting to learn meditation for years. Was recommended by a friend who had learned with Kimberley.
Excellent teacher, the course itself was well paced and easy to understand. The technique is easy to learn and practice on my own.
Good follow up and lots of support on the meditation journey. Highly recommend learning with Kimberley.
— Alex
I really enjoyed learning meditation with Kimberley. She made it easy and effortless and was so encouraging and helpful answering my questions.
I loved it so much I asked Kimberley to conduct a meditation workshop at my workplace. My team absolutely loved it and it was voted the best health and wellbeing initiative we'd ever done.
Can't recommend Kimberley highly enough! Thank you again. We look forward to having you back this year.