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I'm doing things creatively that I would have never ever imagined. I'm a painter and I work
with paints and two years ago I visited this glass studio and I felt this moment of recognition
and starting working with glass and just had a major exhibition of glass. I say I would
have liked to have meditated all these years but I never realized it was something that
you can be taught. I would go every year to a health spa and every year I would try. They
would have, "Okay, this hour is going to be meditation" and I would go in and sit down
and I'd go "Hmm, what am I supposed to do with myself?" and I would leave. You can learn
how to meditate. You close your eyes and you have this deep, profound, meaningful rest
and it is beautiful, easy, simple. You are in a state of being and to have this gift
of being in the moment... and then some how that lasts, and it accumulates. I'm being
more present in the creative process in the work itself also. Work doesn't have to be
so hard. Work can come from a place of flowing, of openness, of responsiveness, of hearing,
listening-- just being more aware. You don't have to fight so hard to get to that work.
It is really easy to learn how to meditate with Transcendental Meditation because it
is such an effortless procedure. A certified teacher of Transcendental Meditation can teach
someone in just a couple of hours.