Knowing What Is Yours

Indra talks about how meditation helps him focus and direct his energy as he reaches for his highest truth and potential.

"So I currently run two businesses. One is a small micro dairy. We currently have eight cows and we provide over 80 families with milk on a weekly basis. It's not always easy in life to know what direction or what path is yours. People spend a huge amount of time just worried that they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing.

And I think meditation is what brings that all together. It helps you to focus your energy and to know what's yours versus what is being imposed upon you. I mean, especially in this world where there's so many things being imposed from the outside, and all these avenues telling you: "this is who you're supposed to be." So amongst all of that, how do you decide as an individual: "this is what I want to do. This is what I want to devote my life to."

And what you need to get to that place of knowing, "okay, this is my next step" is a stillness, and that stillness is gained through meditation. Otherwise, you're just a leaf in the wind being blown from thing to thing, not really knowing or not even having control of your life. Meditation gives you that that solid center to come from. I meditate because I function better as a human being.

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