Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas Mconke. Thank you so much for listening today.

I am a student for the first time and a long time.

So I think being a student, it's calling up memories, impressions in the body that I haven't reflected on for a really long time.

And when I was thinking about a meditation practice to share with you this week, I thought of a moment a pretty long time ago.

It was about 25 years ago, but I remember it vividly, and it was life-changing

in its simplicity. I want to talk about it just a little bit, and then take you into a practice,

as I do here on Mindfulness Plus. So the scene is, I am a freshman in college. I'm 18 years old.

I feel like my life is kind of hanging together by a thread.

I was coming out of a wild adolescence, had some significant conflict with my family, landed in my first college apartment,

didn't know how to take care of myself at all, was starting to feel the academic pressure

of coursework, and I knew I needed something to get through that time.

And I don't know how I knew about it.

I didn't even know that I didn't even know that I knew the word meditation at the time,

but I remember thinking in one of my sleepless, anxious nights that I should learn how to meditate.

And that would help me with all of my

depression, anxiety, insomnia, everything I was contending with at that time in my life. So I get to

looking for a teacher. And that's the story for another episode, how I found a teacher. But I find a teacher and I get

practicing and I do it every day. I sit down in the evening. I breathe. I do my best to kind of

turn the volume down on the thinking mind, turn the volume up on the experiential network of the

body, so to speak.

And I'm just feeling sensation.

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