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Hello and welcome to this brand new week and to Monday. It's Eve here. So I thought

I would kick things off this week by answering a very common frequently asked question. And

the question is how quickly will I feel the benefits of meditation? And it's a perfectly

understandable question to ask, especially if you're suffering. But we also live in a bit

of an instant gratification culture, especially when we see things being advertised as having

instant results or feel better within seven days. So with meditation there are a few things

to consider when answering this question. The biggest being that meditation is a practice,

really a journey of a lifetime. And we know that every journey is different. So what

works for you will likely be different to what works for someone else and vice versa.

Some folks will have a natural aptitude for meditation, whereas others may find it

more challenging. I know when I first started to meditate, I thought because my mind was

so busy, I was just doing it wrong. Whereas actually it just took a few weeks to get

used to sitting with my busy mind. So rather than seeing this as a reason to avoid meditation,

it's actually all the more reason to practice. An analogy for this might be something like

not wanting to exercise because we feel unfit or perhaps don't enjoy it when being unfit

is the very reason exercise would benefit us. We have all lived very different lives,

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