Food for Thought

Daisy Mae
Mar 22, 2016
1 min read

I Meditated For 365 Days Straight. Here's What Happened

''I started meditating on a whim. One of those #100daychallenges caught my eye, and since I had been a longtime sufferer of anxiety and overanalyzing everything, I chose meditation to test out the alleged benefits I kept reading about. For 100 days straight, I was going to meditate for 20 minutes.

Now, I've been meditating for more than a year — and my life is completely different.

It was not easy to start. For the first few days, even five minutes of just sitting and breathing was extremely difficult.

Jumping into 20 minutes straight was like trying to run a marathon on day one of training, I realized, and so I scaled back. I started with five minutes, and though I still had a tiny LA traffic jam of thoughts crossing through my mind at times, I always felt relaxed and clearer-headed afterward.

Here’s where I was when I started meditating: in an abusive, toxic relationship, unsure of what I was going to do with my life or how I was going to be a writer, and my anxious tendencies had my mind spinning tires in mud. I was stuck...''