Since moving out of my flat in September, during the brief times I’ve been staying in London I’ve been using my friends camper as a base. Despite the benefit of not having to pay any rent, my thermometer is reporting the temperature in there to be between 1 – 2 degrees celcuis when I get in there in the evening and we’ve had some snow over night. So, a bit frosty for my liking, so conveniently, I’m moving back in to my old flat!
Since hearing about, and subsequently learning the bizarre art of Lucid Dreaming, it became apparent to me there were potentially all sorts of things my mind was capable of that that I previously hadn’t considered. In the years since that point, I’d read in many places that to truly control and expand the mind, it is recommended one practices a form of meditation, and thus my casual interest in meditation was born.
Despite an interest, I never really pursued it or knew much about the subject, but while experiencing the Buddhist culture first hand in Thailand I decided it might be an interesting experience to learn a technique a little more fully. So after half an hour on Google, sitting in a Chiang Mai internet café, I found a ten day Vipassana retreat in Hereford.
I can now say, I really had no idea what I was getting myself in to when I enrolled in the course. I thought that I would spent ten days in a zen state, feeling very nice with a big grin on my face and then come back to London a master, feeling refreshed and ready for action.
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