came back from a 10-day vipassana meditation retreat, had an outrageous amount of insight and clarity into my life.
a vipassana retreat is like the equivalent of running DRR + RoM + Sanguine: Elixir for 6 months straight.
DRR because it heals EVERYTHING, RoM because it helps you deeeply understand the inner workings of your mind, and Sanguine: Elixir because every single day of the retreat, I was able to observe my thoughts ruminating and becoming extremely emotional about topics farther and farther back in the past. First I was ruminating over things that happened this year, then I healed them via meditation, then I ruminated to last year, then 3 years ago, then 7,
Now i’m scheduled to speak with a counselor about the things I was thinking about on the last day of the retreat, relationships I had when I was 15 (first girlfriends, losing my virginity, getting cheated on) that I didn’t realize could be at the heart of my entire style of relating (less than ideally) over the last 15 years.