Can You Measure Depth?

Inside all of us is that place we go to seek rest and comfort.

How old must you have to be to start your search?

Some people believe you have to understand it first. Children, not all children but some children, start as a way of using their imaginations. This is the biggest power a child can possess when wanting to know about transcendental meditation. A child has no fear and can sometimes manage to stay still long enough to enjoy the sensation of just being.

This is how I began my study of meditation by just stopping one day as a child and just crossed my legs and sat really still. The noise in my head receded and I became aware of my breathing and I let no thoughts come into my brain and just breathed. Everything suddenly made more sense. I was calm. It was like presenting myself anew. I was more than sand and sea; more than thunder and rain. I was everything.

So many things happened in the 1980's during that time that I am glad I got through unscathed. Some were not so lucky. I was too young to explain to others what it took to have clear focus and so a lot of my family believed I was drawing and listening to radio when I was using my mind and enjoying myself.

I am stronger about myself because I took the journey when I was younger. I grasped a lot. I learned as I grew about the transcendental state and through the rock band "Police" learned about Carl Jung and through my "Man in Society" classes learned about the mind that by the time I was already 16 I was already self-aware. I knew my place, and my purpose for being. I read a lot of books - my library was my second home. It was a great place to meditate too.

Since then, I have never stopped the journey inside and outside and there should be no ignorance to how it can help keep life running smoothly.