The athlete running around and around the track doesn’t actually get anywhere. All that effort to remain in essentially the same place. And yet, while the terrain never alters, the runner herself changes, growing stronger, faster, more determined.
How have you grown when it has looked like you were getting nowhere?
Swimming laps….a length, a turn, a length, a turn…mediation in the mantra of the strokes. My brain quiet…I’ve come a long way beginning the day.
Self-correcting…meditation not mediation