The best investments I’ve ever made are those that have given me knowledge and practices that support me to feel safe in my body, to have space between me and my thoughts, to know myself deeply. To stop living in the past and the future. To stop seeking happiness in possessions, titles and relationships and find happiness at its source: inside myself. To be self-sufficient for my own happiness.

Your needs as a human being are uniquely yours, and they’re changing all the time. This is where Vedic meditation comes in. Every meditation allows the nervous system to throw off stress, thereby making it easier to detect from inside what you need to feel safe, healthy and whole.

From the Vedic perspective, to make decisions and take action based on your fine level of feeling is to allow universal intelligence to be your guide. This is how we make our personal contribution to the evolution of all things, which is the purpose of life and creation.

As the depth of your commitment to your natural state grows, nature will deepen her support of you. It took many days and nights, many moons to birth you in all your uniqueness. To the extent you resist your unique design, you’ll feel friction and a lack of wholeness in life. To the extent you embody your embrace design, you’ll feel held and infinitely resourced.

The more regularly we give the mind the experience of settling down and transcending thought, like we do when practicing Vedic meditation, we find our thoughts, speech and action spring forth from a place of deep inner wisdom that is unimpeded by stress. We discover that our consciousness knows no limitations.

Every thought we have has a ripple effect. On our state of mind, our body, our environment and those around us. A regular Vedic meditation practice allows us to gently return to a lightness in our mind and body and become a contributor of peace to the world around us.

When we learn Vedic meditation, we switch on the lights. Adding consciousness to the mind is like adding light to a dark room.