New York based Life, Career and Creativity Coach Sharon Good shares her experience with meditation. As the president of Good Life Coaching Inc, Sharon’s job is to help people achieve their creative and career goals, as well as living healthier, more enjoyable lives. She understands that you cannot light the another's path without brightening your own. A regular practice of Transcendental Meditation has helped her to illuminate her own.
Q. What has attracted you towards meditation practice?
Sharon: Stress! I was getting too stressed by daily life demands, and I needed a way to slow down and go within. My hope was to improve my health and quality of life.
From how many months/years are you practicing meditation? What kind of meditation do you practice? Do you practice every day?
Sharon: I practice Transcendental Meditation. It’s only been 10 months. I practice it every day, as prescribed in the TM training, and really enjoy it.
What is meditation to you? What’s your understanding of meditation?
Sharon: On a surface level, meditation is a time to calm the mind and body, taking it away from the daily stresses of life. I understand that meditation goes a lot deeper than that, and that it can also deepen your spiritual connection.
Can you share your experience with the meditation practice? How did you overcome initial blocks in meditation like difficulties in concentrating as frequency of thoughts is high in the early phase?
Sharon: It’s still fairly new for me, so feel like I have a long way to go in developing my practice. I still have a lot of distracting thoughts. When I notice them, I just bring myself back to my mantra. I’m still new to a meditation practice, so I don’t know if the thoughts will diminish or not.
Would you like to share any special experience which you had during your meditation practice?
Sharon: I do enjoy when I’m able to focus for a few minutes. It’s a lovely, relaxing feeling. I always come out of meditation feeling more relaxed and refreshed, even when I have a lot of distracting thoughts.
What changes meditation practice has done to your personality/attitude/profession/interpersonal relationships, according to you?
Sharon: I’m much calmer when faced with stresses in life and in my work. I’m able to release the upset much more quickly and not take things so seriously.
Do you recommend meditation to others? Why?
Sharon: My feeling is that everybody needs some way to de-stress. For some, it is meditation, for others it’s dancing, walking in nature, gardening, doing yoga or chi gong, singing – whatever helps them detach from the everyday stresses and focus on something they enjoy.
You can reach Sharon Good at sharon@goodlifecoaching.com
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