Protocols that is required during ten days of Goenka Vipassana meditation course

● Your phone will be deposited at the Vipassana centre once the registration is done

● You shall not be communicating with anyone at the center as well. No eye contact, no action and no expressions. You shall be your own company for those ten days. This is compulsive because these things actually are a distraction for the brain in the outer world and it is important to give them up before we enter Vipassana because it works inwards

My honest experience of completing ten days of Goenka Vipassana meditation course

Clarity in Thoughts: You know I would be a person who would want to do a lot in her life which often would leave me with thousands of thoughts at the same time. It would be difficult to segregate them and put on a priority list because I wanted to do it all. Vipassana meditation technique actually helped me give clarity to these thoughts. I would maintain a diary where I would write every thought/ idea that striked me. After those ten days of Goenka Vipassana meditation course, this list got down to five very easily

I realised I am important too: You know some of us have conditioned our mind in a way where we look for validations from other people and I have been in the same stage too. I have been a person who would look out for validations from others and expected them to tell me that I am good or I can do this and do that. Most of the time it will actually leave me sad because not everyone can tell you good things and are ready to demotivate. I got the latter in plenty. The constant stress did impact me but it is in Goenka Vipassana meditation that I realised that in order to attract a particular thing from others, you have to first create it within yourself. I have never appreciated myself for the creativity or talent that I possess but now I put myself first over everything else. If I wouldn’t like to do certain thing, I wouldn’t do it. It’s important to treat yourself with as much love as you give to the others

A happy and peaceful state of mind: I once read it in a book called The mind, where the author argued how in finding the happiness, the humankind actually forgot to be happy. Everything that we do in our life is actually what we do with an end goal of being happy but the irony is that it is in finding the need to be happy, which is leaving us even more stressed. Happiness is a default state of mind for humankind and it should come to us effortlessly. Vipassana meditation technique made me realise this and I realised how we unnecessarily buy things just to be happy. Though I made changes in my life but let me be honest that this is still work in progress because you have to keep reminding your mind to be happy and cheerful. A big change that came within me is the control of anger and reacting instantly in a situation. I do take time before I utter anything

I would also like to add that Goenka Vipassana meditation course is just not the one time thing. You need to keep practicing it and keep improvising to keep that clarity of thoughts. It’s a never ending process but worth every effort. Have you tried doing Vipassana meditation technique or want to go for it ? Let me know in the comment section below

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