Milestone in meditation

As of today, I’ve been meditating daily, without missing one single day for four years. What can I say about the practice? Quite a few things. First, there is no best practices for meditating that I know of, or have been able to discover. For me, it’s been a random voyage of exploration and there seem to be endless ways of practicing, which made even more difficult for me to be reassured that I was on the “right path”. 

This said, my practice from rather random in its approach as evolved into something that is a search for a state of “Prana”, that is finding my whole being immersed into that vital life force or cosmic energy and once present, let it infuse into my whole body, in search of reaching physical strength, sound judgment and creative thoughts.

The reality, though is that each session is a new adventure, without a clear pathway to repeat, maintain or exceed what was reached in the previous sessions. There’s never any guarantee and it’s still hard for me to articulate what need to be done to get to that stage, even though through patience and trial and errors, I frequently get there, but am still woefully unable to come with a sure-fire step by step procedure. 

The results to this day have been a manifestation of greater peace of mind, huge burst of creativity and episodes of “good luck” in which stars seemed to be aligning for me. That’s all I can say for now, except that I very much regret not having pursued meditation diligently when I dip my feet into it, in Geneva, some 55 years ago...