So this morning I took my first tender steps towards aligning myself with my soul mate. I meditated. last night I informed said soul mate in no uncertain terms she must be brutal with me when we awoke and ensure I followed through with my vow to try and meditate with the guided cd I had downloaded from Audible. She smiled this morning as we woke up, thumped my arm and said  sweetly “twenty minutes starting now, meditate”! then smiled a different kind of wicked knowing smile, and headed up the stairs.

I was left lying in bed, one headphone slowly falling from my ear, the fading words of a tech podcast trailing distantly as if it knew it was soon to be done for, goodbye Molly, Tom and Jason, you were loved, I shall miss you in the spiritual but techless world I head for. I then took comfort in knowing the guided meditation I was to follow was also on my IPod, not goodbye to tech completely then, I smiled. Two headphones re-stuck firmly in my ears and a change of the playlist and I was away on my quest of peace and enlightenment. Twenty minutes later all hell broke loose.

Could they not mention on the cover of the CD that meditation has a small possibility of stirring up some hidden, repressed resentment? You know like they do on cigarette packets “This meditation could cause you to change your life” or something. As much as I love Ireland it’s bloody grey and wet, and there is a small possibility that I have been ignoring the fact that I hate this about Ireland for quite awhile. So, on arriving back from my guided meditation which had taken me to a very peaceful place somewhere near Pluto, I had a very large bump as I landed back in the grayest place in the whole galaxy, and I know it is the grayest place in the whole galaxy because I have just been around it!

After a minute or two with my head out the window trying to remember how wonderful the universe really is (as per instruction of the CD) I went upstairs and dragged my family all the way back down the stairs to the front door which I flung open. “Look, Look” is all I said, is all I could say. As I pointed out towards the grayness. “We cant live like this, how can we live in a place where you cant see the sky”? Then followed a whopping great argument about all the things that get argued about by two peaceful mediators.

At least we are now on the same page, kind of. Meditate, count to ten, then duck! That’s my advice, give it to any one you meditate near and all will be well.