Meditation is LIFE.

Cheesy I know, and I'm actually being serious despite my enjoyable meme below, so hear me out. Meditation is not a life hack or a way to optimize your mental capacity. Can it do that, sure. Is that the best way to use meditation, no. The best way to use meditation is by allowing it to bleed into your life and become a way in which you interact with the world.

This doesn't mean you have to become a Buddhist or adopt Buddhist views about your challenges. Instead, it's about using the space in your mind, body, and soul—created through your meditation practice—to help you navigate strife and problems. The way you approach meditation is how you show up in life. This is about letting your life feel as peaceful, free, expansive, and centered as you do after practicing. That feeling isn't just possible in fleeting moments; it can become your way of life. I know because I've experienced it—and I've also lost it when anxiety, fear, and stress took over.

Fourteen months ago, I became a new mom and couldn't imagine fitting in daily meditations, let alone a weekly breathwork practice. I kept laying down for breathwork because I knew it would help, but I felt scattered, overwhelmed by ongoing ego death, and lost in new anxieties. Each session felt like a car tune-up, but I was always running on empty, so it only sustained me for brief moments. Eventually, I carved out a solo coffee shop day for study, journaling, card pulling, and lots of meditation and deep breathing. After that day's session, I finally felt it: a truly regenerated spirit.

I hadn’t felt that regenerated spirit in ages. It felt like a reunion with a long lost friend. Neither of us really remembered why we lost touch, and both felt like nothing bad had happened between us, but we just stopped talking somehow during life. Now that she was back in my life, suddenly I didn’t want to let her go.

Breathwork meditation is more than deep breathing. It's the foundation for making life feel easy, flowing, and full of peace and love. It gives you a break from the constant mental chatter that runs through our heads at lightening speed depleting us of our life force. It releases tensions you might not realize you are holding. When you clear the clutter, you connect more deeply with your inner wisdom, and when you connect with that inner wisdom, your spirit feels rejuvenated.

I know we’re all just human beings doing our best in the world, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be an enlightened being even if I knew how to become that. I do know I desire the freedom that inner peace brings my days. And if there’s anything I can do to support a continual, steady inner peace, I’m in.

We deserve lasting inner peace and no one is going to give this to us. It’s up to us to make our own peace. So today, remember you're worthy of making time for what regenerates you.

If you don't have time for a longer practice today but want some breathing support, try this simple breathing exercise:

Close your eyes and relax your shoulders.

Inhale deeply into your belly, then your chest.

Exhale slowly and fully through your mouth.

Repeat for 3 minutes, focusing only on your breath.

Notice how you feel afterward—lighter, clearer, and more peaceful.

Take a breath and reclaim your peace. You’re worthy of it.